I just tried doing this and it didn't work for me. I develop on Mac and 
deploy on Linux. runserver is the bomb! One of the best things about 
Django. I hope it won't go away any time soon.

On Saturday, April 5, 2014 1:40:16 AM UTC+11, Matthew Summers wrote:
>
> Hello, 
>
> I've seen a few threads about this in the past so I thought I would 
> share. It's common to desire parity between dev and production 
> environments, i.e. no change between envs. At least I generally find 
> this to save time and energy, so towards that I generally develop 
> Mezzanine, or any django project, using gunicorn instead of runserver. 
> Why? Well I hate the single request nature of runserver, so that is 
> the main reason for me. It is also the case that some core django devs 
> would love to see runserver removed in favor of something like 
> gunicorn. The issue has been code reloading on change, which gunicorn 
> would not do. Well, until recently. Its not in a release yet, but 
> gunicorn [0] now supports change detection and reloading, yay!!WIN1!! 
>
> So, how do you make this transition? I've found the package dj-static 
> [1] by Kenneth Reitz (Heroku) to be the simple, quick, elegant 
> solution to this problem. dj-static leverages a wsgi app aptly called 
> static [2,4] to do the actual serving. It's pretty fast & efficient. 
> Oh, its also really easy to setup too. Just collectstatic & check the 
> dj-static readme on github [3]. It handles uploaded content too. Here 
> is a hint, use HEAD on github, DO NOT USE pypi version, its stale, 
> although it should still work ok with python2. If you want to use 
> python3, use HEAD (looks like it will be 0.0.6 when it's released), it 
> uses static3 [4]. 
>
> Anyway, check it out. Let me know what you think! 
>
> Cheers, 
> Matt 
>
> [0] 
> https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn/blob/master/docs/source/settings.rst#reload
>  
> [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dj-static 
> [2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/static 
> [3] https://github.com/kennethreitz/dj-static 
> [4] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/static3 
>
>  -- 
> M. Summers 
>
> "...there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something." 
>   - Thomas A. Edison 
>

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