You cannot put images in your templates directory. You need to make a media folder and map it properly as detailed here:
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/static_files/ On Feb 10, 1:05 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am a bit of a newbie when it comes to Django so I apologize in > advance. I know this is something simple I'm doing wrong but after > hours of reading articles on the Django site and searching for answers > I've had enough. I decided to bite the bullet and just ask :-) > > My problem is I went through the tutorial on the site, all worked > first time great. Then I decided to try putting a more interesting > template HTML page into the polls app, just for an experiment really. > I took an XHTML/CSS design I had done for a site previously and copied > the files into the folder where I keep the templates for the the Polls > tutorial. Thinking all I needed to do was tell point HTTPResonse of > the main view to the new file and it would all work. I was wrong. > > It loads the new HTML file fine but none of the links to images or the > stylesheet coded in the file work. I have looked around trying to find > what I need to do to get this working, I've moved the files around > trying to find the right location for them, read the full Template > guide on the Django site and even tried to see how it's done in the > Admin HTML templates that come with Django. Nothing has worked. > > My site is structured like so: > mysite - folder created by Django_Admin.py > -------> Polls - folder contains all the .py files for the Polls app > -------> Templates - folder containing all the HTML templates for the > site > ------------->Polls - folder for all the templates for Polls app > -------------------->Images folder - contains all the images used in > the template > -------------------->index.html > -------------------->screen.css > > The stylesheet is linked with the following syntax in the HTML > template: > > <link href="screen.css" rel="stylesheet" /> > > The links work fine when you load the HTML file in a browser so I > assume it's something to do with the Django template settings in > settings.py I tried experimenting with the media folder settings at > well but I'm getting nowhere. The Django development server gives 404 > error for the stylesheet and images when I run it, just appears with > plain HTML text. > > Can anyone help? It would be greatly appreciated. No doubt it will be > something simple in the settings. > > Thanks in advance. > > Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
