我应该如何在Django中更改TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS？

Question

I'm trying to use the Django Social Auth application to handle logins to my site from a variety of social media sites.

When working through the example code here , the example uses the following settings for TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS :

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (    
    'django.core.context_processors.debug',
    'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
    'django.core.context_processors.media',
    'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
    'social_auth.context_processors.social_auth_by_type_backends',
    'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
)

However, if I use these settings my static media url is ignored (css/js/images are not available), and I think it is overwriting some other context settings. How can I check if there are more context settings that I should be including?

Answer 1

I think you need to add django.core.context_processors.static to your list of context processors.

Then maybe have a quick read through the docs on serving static files - The process varies depending on your setup.

It's difficult to say what else you might need in there, I think you've got everything that django drops in there as default (when you run python django-admin.py startapp ). Glancing at one of the current projects I'm working on, I've got django.core.context_processors.request for passing the request object into the template and one custom context_processor, but obviously what you add is subject to your specific requirements.

Answer 2

Have you set your STATICFILES_DIRS ? Also, you should add the django.core.context_processors.static to your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS and address your static files using the STATIC_URL .

Also the docs on static files are generally a good read.