An alternative is to use the django extensions runserverplus <http://django-extensions.readthedocs.io/en/latest/runserver_plus.html> which uses the Werkzeug debugger. As you can see in this post on django-developers <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/django-developers/NZ1qTkZ6vok/fhdz7rTtL1EJ>, this is used as an alternative.
Regardless, I think the primary issue is you're serving the content in an inappropriate manner. Django should be used for dynamic requests, and static files should be handled by an Apache or Nginx webserver that serves up the static files and passes the dynamic requests to Django via mod_wsgi or Gunicorn. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/49d91b5d-0ce2-4b01-aa2a-230969372641%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.