#15765: Serving static files in development doesn't work with staticfiles
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Reporter: Semmel | Owner: nobody
Type: | Status: closed
Uncategorized | Component: contrib.staticfiles
Milestone: | Severity: Normal
Version: 1.3 | Keywords:
Resolution: | Has patch: 0
worksforme | Needs tests: 0
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Needs documentation: 0 |
Patch needs improvement: 0 |
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Comment (by jezdez):
Replying to [comment:2 Semmel]:
> I've added a little test project to demonstrate the behavior. Just run
it and point your browser to http://localhost:8000/static/myfolder/. Of
course I could use `staticfiles_urlpatterns` for serving files in
development. For this example I used `static` and added `show_indexes` as
an easy way to see that the folder really is there
(http://localhost:8000/static/ works as expected) but navigating to
anything else just doesn't work.
As I said, if you use staticfiles, the STATIC_ROOT directory won't be
served directly but will use the staticfiles finders instead to find the
files linked via STATIC_URL. Feel free to not use staticfiles but the
django.core.views.static view if you just want to serve files located in
the STATIC_ROOT directory.
> Is there any resource for a standard staticfiles layout? I tried to peek
at djangoproject.com but was surprised to see that it doesn't even use
staticfiles.
Yes, as described in the docs, by default staticfiles will look at the
static/ directories of each app and all the directories listed in
STATICFILES_DIRS -- similarly to how templates are structured. If you have
"common files" that don't fit any of your apps, put them in a separate
directory and add that directory to the STATICFILES_DIRS setting.
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Ticket URL: <http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/15765#comment:3>
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