Re: location of CSS

2008-03-04 Thread Lewis Bergman
Where are your templates stored? Phillip Watts wrote: > I can't figure out where to put css files or background images referred to by > css. I have: > > > and > MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/phil/philproj/media/' > > ls -al /home/phil/philproj/media > total 12 > drwxr-xr-x 2 phil phil 4096 2008-03-04

Re: location of CSS

2008-03-04 Thread Evert Rol
> I can't figure out where to put css files or background images > referred to by > css. I have: > > > and > MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/phil/philproj/media/' Don't you need a '/media/' or something before that 'dirview.css'? What is your MEDIA_URL? Since Django normally has the media files (css, i

Re: location of CSS

2008-03-04 Thread Phillip Watts
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 12:38:25 Lewis Bergman wrote: > Where are your templates stored? currently, here TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( '/home/philproj/dirview/httemplates',) but I have copies of dirview.css in that any every other directory I could think of accessible to user phil. And, oh yeah, no sla

Re: location of CSS

2008-03-05 Thread Brian Luft
Serving static media really has nothing to do with Django. Presumably your browser is reading the CSS file and making a request back to your web server for the file. You haven't told us anything about your web server configuration. What path is being requested to the server for the image file?

Re: location of CSS

2008-03-05 Thread Phillip Watts
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 13:37:58 Brian Luft wrote: > Serving static media really has nothing to do with Django. Funny that css and js are considered "static media". In the spirit of templating they should be dynamic. I would characterize them as junk_patched_on_to_a_crappy_platform. But, O

Re: location of CSS

2008-03-05 Thread Brian Luft
> Funny that css and js are considered "static media". In the spirit > of templating they should be dynamic. I'm not quite sure what you mean. Typically the contents of CSS, Javascript, and image files don't change from request to request. Hence - "static media". In most cases requests for "st