On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Brian Neal <bgn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 3, 6:04 am, Marc Aymerich <glicer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Marc Aymerich <glicer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > I just installed the django-admin-tools app but my django installation >> > doesn't load the css, js and other static files. >> >> > in settings.py I have: >> > STATIC_ROOT = '/home/ucp/trunk/static/' >> > STATIC_URL = '/static/' >> >> > and when i try to load >> >http://localhost:8081/static/admin_tools/css/dashboard.cssI get a >> > "page not found" error :( >> >> > but this file seems to be in the right directory and have read >> > permisons for my user! >> > /home/ucp/trunk/static/admin_tools/css/dashboard.css >> >> > what I'm missing? >> >> I solve it setting staticfiles_dirs var: >> >> STATICFILES_DIRS = ('/home/ucp/trunk/static/',) >> > > STATIC_ROOT is the location of where the management command is going > to place all the static files it collects. So normally (?) I think > you'll want STATIC_ROOT to be a different directory than what you put > in STATICFILES_DIRS. Think of it this way: your non-app specific > static files will appear in a directory that is listed in > STATICFILES_DIRS, your app-specifc files typically would appear under > your_app/static, and all of the static files will be copied to > STATIC_ROOT after running the management command. In production, you'd > likely configure your server to serve files out of STATIC_ROOT. > > Hope that helps,
Thanks Brian, now I understand what is STATIC_ROOT and STATICFILES_DIRS :) -- Marc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
