I am experienced with Python but new to Django and web development in
general. I am struggling to understand its static files system from the
documentation <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/howto/static-files/>.
It seems like I have to set multiple settings variables and create multiple
folders in order to get the server to accomplish the simple task of
"finding" these files. After toying with it for a few hours I haven't been
able to get the static files system to work and and have resorted to the
following system which is probably a very bad idea:
In views.py:
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext
import datetime
import os.path
import settings
statictypes = {".css": "text/css",
".js": "text/javascript"}
def servestatic(request, filename):
fullfilename = os.path.join(settings.STATIC_ROOT, filename)
ext = os.path.splitext(filename)[1]
return HttpResponse(open(fullfilename).read(),
content_type=statictypes[ext])
And in urls.py:
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
import mysite.views as views
staticextensions = [ext[1:] for ext in views.statictypes.keys()]
staticextstring = '|'.join(staticextensions)
urlpatterns = patterns('',
...
(r"([^/]+\.(?:%s))$" % staticextstring, views.servestatic)
)
This actually works (and I could optimize it by caching the static file
contents in memory rather than continually rereading them), but of course
it's circumventing Django's built-in system for managing static files. My
project architecture looks like this:
mysite
|
|--manage.py
|--mysite
|
|__init__.py
|settings.py
|urls.py
|views.py
|wgsi.py
|--static
| |
| |--jquery.js
| |--TestFormat.css
|
|--templates
|
|--TestTemplate.html
At the beginning, the documentation page mentions, "For small projects,
this isn’t a big deal, because you can just keep the static files somewhere
your web server can find it." This sounds like the simple solution I'm
looking for; what does it mean and how do I do it? I'm also frequently
confused by how when I created the project it created two nested folders
with the same name. Which is considered to be the "project root"?
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Django users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
