#34702: Runserver serving static files from STATICFILES_DIRS instead of
STATIC_ROOT
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Reporter: rmoscoe | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: | Version: 4.2
contrib.staticfiles | Keywords: runserver,
Severity: Normal | staticfiles
Triage Stage: | Has patch: 0
Unreviewed |
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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This is my first Django project, so I apologize if this turns out not to
be a bug--but I've done a lot of searching on Google, in the Django docs,
and in the FAQ, and I am confident this is a bug. When I run
collectstatic, my static files are correctly copied from the
STATICFILES_DIRS directory to the STATIC_ROOT directory. However, when I
run runserver, the static files are served from the STATICFILES_DIRS
directory.
I am attempting to serve a React front end with a Django back end, so I
have run the build on the client side to generate static files for Django
to serve. However, I was getting MIME Type errors for my CSS and JS files,
despite getting a status code of 200 for them. In an attempt to resolve
this issue, I changed the href and src attributes for the <link> and
<script> tags in my index.html file in the STATIC_ROOT directory. However,
I noticed that runserver was still looking for the CSS and JS files in the
same place, which made me suspicious.
With runserver still running, I started altering the href and src
attributes for my <link> and <script> tags in my STATICFILES_DIRS
directory (client/dist), and I saw the changes take effect in real time.
The relevent settings in my settings.py file appear below:
{{{
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'server.apps.ServerConfig',
'rest_framework',
]
MIDDLEWARE = [
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'client', 'dist')]
}}}
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34702>
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