On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 1:50 PM, Karl Ritchie <karlritc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi I'm very new to Django. I tried searching for this but the answers I
> found aren't very clear. I'm wanting to create links to PDF documents.
> I've created an app called writing with a static folder with PDF files. At
> first I just put an html  link in the template file but it when I ran it it
> said it couldn't find the file.
> I think I have to change the View.py and URL.py in Writing but what do I
> change it to and what do I put in the template file for the link?
>
>
Karl,

"A static file is a static file", it doesn't matter if it is a jpg or a
pdf. You should read
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/howto/static-files/ and think that
instead of img tags for jpgs you will use a tags for pdfs

HTH!


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