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A Django app that provides helpers for serving static files.

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This is a Django app that provides helpers for serving static files.

Django developers mostly concern themselves with the dynamic parts of web applications – the views and templates that render new for each request. But web applications have other parts: the static media files (images, CSS, Javascript, etc.) that are needed to render a complete web page.

For small projects, this isn’t a big deal, because you can just keep the media somewhere your web server can find it. However, in bigger projects – especially those comprised of multiple apps – dealing with the multiple sets of static files provided by each application starts to get tricky.

That’s what staticfiles is for:

Collecting static files from each of your Django apps (and any other place you specify) into a single location that can easily be served in production.

The main website for django-staticfiles is github.com/jezdez/django-staticfiles where you can also file tickets.

Installation

  • Use your favorite Python packaging tool to install staticfiles from PyPI, e.g.:

    pip install django-staticfiles

    You can also install the in-development version of django-staticfiles with pip install django-staticfiles==dev.

  • Added "staticfiles" to your INSTALLED_APPS setting:

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        # ...
        "staticfiles",
    ]
  • Set your STATIC_URL setting to the URL that handles serving static files:

    STATIC_URL = "/static/"
  • In development mode (when DEBUG = True) the runserver command will automatically serve static files:

    python manage.py runserver
  • Once you are ready to deploy all static files of your site in a central directory (STATIC_ROOT) to be served by a real webserver (e.g. Apache, Cherokee, Lighttpd, Nginx etc.), use the collectstatic management command:

    python manage.py collectstatic

    See the webserver’s documentation for descriptions how to setup serving the deployment directory (STATIC_ROOT).

  • (optional) In case you use Django’s admin app, make sure the ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX setting is set correctly to a subpath of STATIC_URL:

    ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = STATIC_URL + "admin/"

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