According to the docs, collectstatic will copy the files from various folders into STATIC_ROOT. Therefore, you cannot use the STATIC_ROOT folder in STATICFILES_DIRS. Solution: change STATIC_ROOT to e.g. STATIC_ROOT = ‘/home/username/projects/site/assets/’
STATIC_ROOT The absolute path to the directory where ./manage.py collectstatic will collect static files for deployment. Example: STATIC_ROOT=”/var/www/example.com/static/” now the command ./manage.py collectstatic will copy all the static files(ie in static folder in your apps, static files in all paths) to the directory /var/www/example.com/static/. now you only need to serve this directory on apache or … Read more
If you have a base or header template that’s included everywhere why not include the favicon there with basic HTML? <link rel=”shortcut icon” type=”image/png” href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21938028/{% static”favicon.ico’ %}”/>
Django 1.4 now includes CachedStaticFilesStorage which does exactly what you need (well… almost). Since Django 2.2 ManifestStaticFilesStorage should be used instead of CachedStaticFilesStorage. You use it with the manage.py collectstatic task. All static files are collected from your applications, as usual, but this storage manager also creates a copy of each file with the MD5 … Read more
It’s looking for a folder named ‘static’ that’s next to the settings.py, i.e. in the project folder, not at the root of the git repo. git root/ git root/{app name} git root/{app name}/settings.py git root/{app name}/static/ <- this is what you’re missing Note that empty folders aren’t tracked by git, so you’ll have to put … Read more
It depends a lot of what you want to do. Though first of all: do not overwrite it in the Django admin directly. You got two options I think are reasonable: If you want to change the appearance of the admin in general you should override admin templates. This is covered in details here: Overriding … Read more
This worked for me {% load staticfiles %}
What is the production.py file? How do you import your settings? Depending on how you got this error (serving django through a wsgi server or on the command line), check for manage.py or wsgi.py to see what is the name of the default settings file. If you want to manuallly set the settings to use, … Read more
No. In fact, the file django/contrib/staticfiles/finders.py even checks for this and raises an ImproperlyConfigured exception when you do so: “The STATICFILES_DIRS setting should not contain the STATIC_ROOT setting” The STATICFILES_DIRS can contain other directories (not necessarily app directories) with static files and these static files will be collected into your STATIC_ROOT when you run collectstatic. … Read more
You can serve static/index.html for development like this: if settings.DEBUG: urlpatterns += url( r’^$’, ‘django.contrib.staticfiles.views.serve’, kwargs={ ‘path’: ‘index.html’, ‘document_root’: settings.STATIC_ROOT}), But for production you should configure your nginx (or other frontend server) to serve index.html file for / location UPDATE I want to explain the case you should do like this. For example your django … Read more