How to configure settings in Django when realative reference of static files don't contain a 'static'?

Question

I'm a newbee to html/js/css.

Now I have a big frontend that use realative reference of static files that don't contain a 'static' prefix.

However Django need a STATIC_URL definition in settings.py, default is "/static/".

Then the real request url is "/demo/faces/male/16.jpg", but the url django expected is "/static/demo/faces/male/16.jpg"

It's really a big frontend maintained by other guys, I don't want to modify it. Is there a method to remove the 'static' requirement?

Answer 1

See this . It says "In addition to using a static/ directory inside your apps, you can define a list of directories (STATICFILES_DIRS) in your settings file where Django will also look for static files."

The example that they give puts static in the specification of the additional directory, but that appears to be inessential. So you would just list your /demo/faces/male and /demo/faces/female/ directories.