The error message is pretty obvious. "You're using the staticfiles app without having set the STATIC_ROOT setting to a filesystem path."
Set the STATIC_ROOT setting in settings.py. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#static-root On Saturday, 18 November 2017, 20:12:52 GMT, drone4four <drone4f...@gmail.com> wrote: Thank you, Jason. The WYSIWYG editor like ckeditor is precisely what I am looking for. I have set out to run ckeditor. I am following along with the instructions on how to install it. Inside my virtual environment I invoke pip install django-ckeditor. Then I add ckeditor to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py. But then my shell is telling me that I have improperly configured static root in the files app even though my settings.py does include a line: STATIC_URL = '/static/' The installation doc linked to above does refer to the official Django doc on how to manage static files, which I find to be helpful but isn’t really very applicable to my particular situation because I do not have any image files that I am working with in my case at this point. When I run python3 dobbs_portal_blog/manage.py collectstatic, I get this error: $ python3 dobbs_portal_blog/manage.py collectstatic You have requested to collect static files at the destination location as specified in your settings. This will overwrite existing files! Are you sure you want to do this? Type 'yes' to continue, or 'no' to cancel: yes Traceback (most recent call last): File "dobbs_portal_blog/manage.py", line 22, in <module> execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 364, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 356, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 283, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args, **cmd_options) File "/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 330, in execute output = self.handle(*args, **options) File "/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 199, in handle collected = self.collect() File "/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 124, in collect handler(path, prefixed_path, storage) File "/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 354, in copy_file if not self.delete_file(path, prefixed_path, source_storage): File "/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 260, in delete_file if self.storage.exists(prefixed_path): File "/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 392, in exists return os.path.exists(self.path(name)) File "/home/gnull/Dropbox/TECH/python/2017/django-experiment-with-nick/subgenius-blog-env/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py", line 50, in path raise ImproperlyConfigured("You're using the staticfiles app " django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: You're using the staticfiles app without having set the STATIC_ROOT setting to a filesystem path. (subgenius-blog-env) gnull at gnosis in $ On Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 7:46:21 AM UTC-5, Jason wrote: What you're trying to look for is a WYSIWYG editor (What You See Is What You Get), and there are a number of third party packages you can look at https://djangopackages.org/ grids/g/wysiwyg/ ckeditor is one of the largest and most popular such projects, and has integration with django via https://github.com/django- ckeditor/django-ckeditor On Friday, November 17, 2017 at 9:21:57 PM UTC-5, drone4four wrote: I didn’t do a very good job explaining. Let me try again. If you take a look at this image of Blogger, the red arrow points to the formatting bar. The formatting is a helpful feature in Blogger which allows blog posters to add an essay worth of content, and then alter the appearance of the Lorem Ipsum essay content with bold, italics, underline and a few dozen other buttons and options. Then when you click the HTML button in the Blogger dashboard, it shows you the same Lorem Ipsum content, but just the raw HTML source. My Django admin panel when creating a new blog post just accepts plain text. No HTML markup formatting. Here is a pic of my Django dashboard with a red arrow pointing to where I am hoping to add an HTML formatting bar. Or does Django not have an HTML formatting menu feature helping blog contributors to format their content? I can’t find it in the model field type / option doc that I linked to in my original post. Thank you. On Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 10:41:31 PM UTC-5, Amitesh Sahay wrote: The HTML file in Django is parsed through views.py if that is what you are looking for. For Italics <em> tag should work. For strong text, you may use <strong> tag. I hope that I have understood your question correctly. Hello, Regards,Amitesh Sahay primary :: 91-907 529 6235 On Thursday 16 November 2017, 6:51:03 AM IST, drone4four <drone...@gmail.com> wrote: The contents of my models.py looks like this: from django.db import models # Create your models here. class Post(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=25 6) pub_date = models.DateTimeField() image = models.ImageField(upload_to=' media/') body = models.TextField() def __str__(self): return self.title def pub_date_pretty(self): return self.pub_date.strftime('%A %d %B %Y @ %-I:%M:%S %p') def summary(self): return self.body[:350] Lines 5 through 8 initiate the model class variables for my blog dashboard. My dashboard looks like this. There is a title, pub date, image and body. The Udemy instructor suggests consulting the official Django doc for field types/options. I’m not sure I really understand most of it. There is just so much information there. 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