I am not completely sure what is going on, but pretty sure the new staticfiles thing is colliding with my existing
urlpatterns += patterns('', (r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.contrib.staticfiles.views.serve', {'document_root': 'static/','show_indexes': True})) That used to work, now I get: http://0.0.0.0:8080/static/ "Page not found: /static/" (not the typical 404 error page, which also seems like a bug, see below) A stupid workaround fix is: STATICFILES_ROOT='foo' Here is what the docs show: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/staticfiles STATICFILES_ROOT Default: '' (Empty string) STATICFILES_URL Default: '/static/' 404 thing: It does return a 404, but not the 404 page. c...@dc10:~/temp$ curl -v http://0.0.0.0:8080/static/ * About to connect() to 0.0.0.0 port 8080 (#0) * Trying 0.0.0.0... connected * Connected to 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 8080 (#0) > GET /static/ HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.21.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8o > zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.18 > Host: 0.0.0.0:8080 > Accept: */* > * HTTP 1.0, assume close after body < HTTP/1.0 404 NOT FOUND < Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:52:58 GMT < Server: WSGIServer/0.1 Python/2.6.6 < Content-type: text/plain < Content-Length: 24 < * Closing connection #0 Page not found: /static/ -- Carl K -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.