Hi Christer. The collectstatic command is a Django concept, not something specific to Mezzanine. Even though it requires more time, a strong foundation on Django will make your time with Mezzanine much more productive.
When you use Django's dev server, it will look into the /static directory inside each of your apps. In production, all static files should be served from the top-level /static directory. You need to copy all files scattered across the app directories into this central location, and that's what the command does. You need to make sure your production sever is routing the /static/ url of your site to this top level /static folder. The nginx config included with mezzanine does that by default. On Fri, Jan 11, 2019, 8:30 AM Christer Enfors <[email protected] wrote: > I don't understand how the "collectstatic" stuff works. I have a static > directory, and inside it there are files. But if I turn off debugging in > settings.py, then the files inside static/ suddenly give me a 404, meaning > I only get a very bare-bones page with no CSS, no images, etc. But the > files are still there, in the static/ directory. It's as if it's looking in > a different static/ depending on if debug is turned on or off. > > This would be a lot easier if I could find some documentation about > Mezzanine *as a CMS* - the documentation I found is for programming > extensions for it from what I can tell. And it's great that there's > documentation for that, but that's not what I'm looking for right now. > > I suspect that I am supposed to learn Django to learn how this stuff > works, and sure, I could do that. But I'd rather not, right now. I just > want to use Mezzanine as a CMS. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Mezzanine Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mezzanine Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
