Great. Glad te be of help.
and yes, the missing RequestContext was what was missing. And insteas of trying
months for yourself just drop a few lines here on that list in the furure ;-)
happy coding!
On Nov 23, 2011, at 15:13 , Guillaume Chorn wrote:
> IT WORKED!!! Holy cow. So my main issue was just not using RequestContext,
> right? Either way, thank you SO much. I have been stuck at this point for
> months! I can now TRULY begin working on my website. Wow. Thank you. So.
> Much.
>
> best,
> Guillaume
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Ivo Brodien <i...@brodien.de> wrote:
> ok, i think we got it.
>
> def items(request):
> item_list=Item.objects.all()
> return render(request, 'myapp/items.html', {'items_list':items_list},
> content_type="text/css")
>
> you are returning html and text/css. Your HTML includes a CSS but that is a
> different story. The Browser will ask for the included CSS file in a
> different request to the server and the server responds with a static file
> from disk without going through any of your views.
>
> so just remove content_type
>
> or put it to text/html which is the default.
>
> Your browser thinks it is a CSS file instead of HTML.
>
> cheers
> Ivo
>
>
> On Nov 23, 2011, at 14:40 , Guillaume Chorn wrote:
>
>> Oops, I guess maybe you meant since I've changed the views.py file since I
>> last included it? Here is the newest version:
>>
>> http://dpaste.com/660808/
>>
>> thanks,
>> Guillaume
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Guillaume Chorn <guillaumech...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> Sorry, I thought I included my views.py earlier, but here it is:
>>
>> http://dpaste.com/660653/
>>
>> It is the
>>
>> (r'^items/$','myapp.views.items')
>>
>> which is not working. It shows the expected HTML source--basically, exactly
>> what I have in the template file, except {{ STATIC_URL }} has been changed
>> to '/static' and all of the template tags have been replaced by actual
>> values. So yes, I think that it's just not rendered. What could cause this?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Guillaume
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Ivo Brodien <i...@brodien.de> wrote:
>> show your myapp.views.py file and is it the
>> (r'^home/$','myapp.views.homepage'),
>>
>> which is not working?
>>
>> Is it showing the html source that you expect just not rendered or something
>> else?
>>
>> It is always a good idea to provide as much details as possible.
>>
>> But yeah, we are getting close.
>>
>> cheers
>> Ivo
>>
>>
>>
>>> Gah! Removed it, but now when I load up the page, it just shows me HTML
>>> source code. The rest of the views work fine.
>>>
>>> Sorry for all this trouble. But at least something is happening with each
>>> change you suggest! I now have more hope than I've had in quite a while.
>>> I think we're getting close! =)
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Guillaume
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Ivo Brodien <i...@brodien.de> wrote:
>>> you did not read the post by Tom Evans, did you? ;)
>>>
>>> remove "django.core.context_processors.tz”,
>>>
>>> or just put:
>>>
>>> ("django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
>>> "django.core.context_processors.debug",
>>> "django.core.context_processors.i18n",
>>> "django.core.context_processors.media",
>>> "django.core.context_processors.static",
>>> "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages")
>>>
>>>
>>> It was a mistake by me. I posted the one from the dev version.
>>>
>>> does it work now?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 23, 2011, at 13:02 , Guillaume Chorn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for continuing to follow up on this. Something is definitely
>>>> happening now. I went ahead and put this into my views.py:
>>>>
>>>> from django.shortcuts import render
>>>>
>>>> def items(request):
>>>> item_list=Item.objects.all()
>>>> return render(request, 'myapp/items.html', {'item_list':item_list},
>>>> content_type="text/css")
>>>>
>>>> And now when I try to load the page, I get the following error:
>>>>
>>>> ImproperlyConfigured at /diseases/
>>>>
>>>> Module "django.core.context_processors" does not define a "tz" callable
>>>> request processor
>>>>
>>>> Request Method: GET
>>>> Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/diseases/
>>>> Django Version: 1.3.1
>>>> Exception Type: ImproperlyConfigured
>>>> Exception Value:
>>>>
>>>> Module "django.core.context_processors" does not define a "tz" callable
>>>> request processor
>>>>
>>>> Exception Location:
>>>> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/context.py
>>>> in get_standard_processors, line 154
>>>> Python Executable:
>>>> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python
>>>> Python Version: 2.7.2
>>>> Python Path:
>>>>
>>>> ['/Users/guillaumechorn/Documents/pharmapipe',
>>>> '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip',
>>>> '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7',
>>>>
>>>> '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin',
>>>>
>>>> '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac',
>>>>
>>>> '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages',
>>>> '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
>>>> '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
>>>>
>>>> '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
>>>>
>>>> '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages']
>>>> Did something happen to my context.py file? Here it is:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://dpaste.com/660778/
>>>>
>>>> Also, as you can see from the error message above, I am currently using
>>>> Django 1.3.1.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Guillaume
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Ivo Brodien <i...@brodien.de> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> STATIC_URL is not working in your template because the template does not
>>>> get the RequestContext, which has all the variables in it.
>>>>
>>>> use the render shortcut [1] instead of render_to_reponse
>>>>
>>>> BTW: It seems you are using the development version. You should change to
>>>> 1.3.1
>>>>
>>>> Does this help?
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/http/shortcuts/#render
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 23, 2011, at 7:33 , Guillaume Chorn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> The location of my CSS file is
>>>>> /Users/guillaumechorn/Documents/project/myapp/static/stylesheet.css.
>>>>> Sorry, I may have missed you asking for this earlier.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is my views.py:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://dpaste.com/660653/
>>>>>
>>>>> When I hardcode the disk location of the CSS file in the template (like
>>>>> so: <link rel="stylesheet"
>>>>> href="/Users/guillaumechorn/Documents/project/myapp/static/stylesheet.css"
>>>>> type="text/css" />), the CSS shows up if I open the template file
>>>>> directly using a browser. But it still doesn't show up when loading up
>>>>> the page on the development server.
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> Guillaume
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Ivo Brodien <i...@brodien.de> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> looks fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> yes, show your views.py
>>>>>
>>>>> and you can also hardcode the STATIC_URL in the template to see if the
>>>>> path: src=“/static/stylesheet.css” works.
>>>>>
>>>>> or simply open http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/stylesheet.css in your
>>>>> browser.
>>>>>
>>>>> Again: Where is that CSS file on your disk?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 23, 2011, at 2:46 , Guillaume Chorn wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry, I think I made something confusing. In my original file, I only
>>>>>> pasted the URL pattern for the site homepage. However, this is not the
>>>>>> page I'm trying to style (or link to the CSS file). The page I'm trying
>>>>>> to link to the CSS file is a separate one, which I have previously
>>>>>> referred to as http://127.0.0.1:8000/view/, but which I will hereafter
>>>>>> refer to as http://127.0.0.1:8000/items/ (and will now include below).
>>>>>> I previously used the term "view" to imply a general myapp.views.view,
>>>>>> but will hereafter refer to it as myapp.views.items. Hope that makes
>>>>>> sense. I've used dpaste to share my code as suggested.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is my settings.py file:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://dpaste.com/660563/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is the template which I want to style:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://dpaste.com/660565/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And here is my urls.py file:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://dpaste.com/660568/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let me know if anything else is needed, such as the views.py file or
>>>>>> something.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>> Guillaume
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Ivo Brodien <i...@brodien.de> wrote:
>>>>>> In your original post you had the url like this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (r'^home/$','myapp.views.homepage'),
>>>>>>
>>>>>> than your the url starts with view instead of home so there might be
>>>>>> something wrong.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> just paste these files into somthing like dpaste.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - settings.py
>>>>>> - myapp.views.homepage
>>>>>> - urls.py
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Nov 23, 2011, at 0:29 , Guillaume Chorn wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you Ivo. Your suggestion makes a lot of sense so I tried it out.
>>>>>>> Unfortunately, after adding TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS and its
>>>>>>> associated tuple into the settings.py file, I tried to restart the
>>>>>>> development server to see if it worked and it didn't. I checked the
>>>>>>> page source again and it's still looking for /view/stylesheet.css. Am
>>>>>>> I missing something else?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>>> Guillaume
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Ivo Brodien <i...@brodien.de> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Finally, I have another question. In my settings.py file, there is
>>>>>>>> actually no section for TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS. I have noticed
>>>>>>>> in the documentation
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> yes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> put this in there:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ("django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
>>>>>>> "django.core.context_processors.debug",
>>>>>>> "django.core.context_processors.i18n",
>>>>>>> "django.core.context_processors.media",
>>>>>>> "django.core.context_processors.static",
>>>>>>> "django.core.context_processors.tz",
>>>>>>> "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages")
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and try again.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What happens in your template is that {{ STATIC_URL }} is empty because
>>>>>>> the context processor ““django.core.context_processors.static”” did not
>>>>>>> put the STATIC_URL into the context. so your path to the file becomes:
>>>>>>> /view/stylesheet.css instead of /static/stylesheet.css
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You have to put the CSS file in a directory called static as mentioned
>>>>>>> before.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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