On Jul 28, 4:21 pm, Andreas Pfrengle <a.pfren...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we've been trying for hours now to include a css-file in our project,
> but it just doesn't work and we don't know why. We've already reduced
> the project to the absolute minimum of necessary code:
> ----------------------------
> #settings.py:
> PROJECT_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
> MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH,
> 'site_media/'))
> TEMPLATE_DIRS = ('templates', )
> <Rest is merely the default settings when starting a new project; the
> app is included in ISTALLED_APPS>
>
> #site_media/css/test.css:
> body {
> background: #9ba49b url("../images/test.jpg"); }
>
> #site_media/images/test.jpg:
> <a jpg image>
>
> #templates/base.html:
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
> <html>
> <head>
> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../site_media/css/test.css" type="text/
> css" media="screen" />
> </head>
> <body>
> test
> </body>
> </html>
>
> #testapp/views.py:
> from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
> from django.template import Context, RequestContext
>
> def home(request):
> data = {}
> return render_to_response('base.html', RequestContext(request,
> data))
>
> --------------------
> When I drag base.html in the browser, the css is included, loading the
> test.jpg image. When loading the page in the django-project, the css
> isn't loaded (neither the background color, nor the image). When I
> include the css code directly in base.html <style> tag, the background
> color is set, but still the image is not loaded (after adjusting the
> relative url).
> Somehow I feel there's a problem with the path Django tries to access.
> However, the method we've defined the PROJECT_PATH and MEDIA_ROOT in
> the settings.py already worked in another project. Something else must
> be missing, but what?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice,
> Andreas
You haven't shown your urls.py, but do you have anything actually
serving from ../site_media/? Have you set up Django to do it (via the
development server), or Apache?
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