Re: contrib.staticfiles and runserver
On Oct 28, 9:45 pm, SmileyChris wrote: > My suggestion is that StaticFilesHandler only does its magic if > 'django.contrib.staticfiles' is found in INSTALLED_APPS. Does that > sound acceptable? That seems like a very reasonable opt-in approach that solves the backwards-compatibility problem. +1 Carl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
Re: contrib.staticfiles and runserver
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:45 AM, SmileyChris wrote: > It's cool that runserver takes away the hassle of needing to add in > your static url (is this documented? I didn't find it in my skim) but > doing it by default seems pretty backwards incompatible, even if we > are just talking about the dev server. > > My suggestion is that StaticFilesHandler only does its magic if > 'django.contrib.staticfiles' is found in INSTALLED_APPS. Does that > sound acceptable? A related ticket: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/14582 Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
Re: contrib.staticfiles and runserver
On Oct 29, 2:45 pm, SmileyChris wrote: > doing it by default seems pretty backwards incompatible, even if we I was a bit terse, let me expand. STATICFILES_URL defaults to '/static/'. The StaticFilesHandler (which is now what is used by runserver) swallows requests to this url. Yeah, that's about it. Easy to solve for my case (since I was just using django-staticfiles anyway, I just needed to set STATICFILES_DIRS) but still was a few minutes of head-scratching as to what was going wrong. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
