Django: serving static file on debug=false

Question

I know this question was asked many times, but none of the answers i found and tried helped me.

Those are my static files settings:

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.abspath(SETTINGS_PATH+'/staticfiles/')

# URL prefix for static files.
# Example: "http://media.lawrence.com/static/"
STATIC_URL = '/staticfiles/'

# Additional locations of static files
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    # Put strings here, like "/home/html/static" or "C:/www/django/static".
    # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
    os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'static'),
    )

# List of finder classes that know how to find static files in
# various locations.
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
#    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
) 

And in myapp/urls.py:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns

admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # urls
)

urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

Collectstatic copies all files to staticfiles/ as it should and i get 404 on all static files.

I also tried this in urls.py:

if not settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += patterns('',
        url(r'^staticfiles/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
            {'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT}),
    )

This gives me following kind of errors:

Resource interpreted as Stylesheet but transferred with MIME type text/html:  "http://localhost:8000/?next=/staticfiles/css/bootstrap.css". localhost:11
Resource interpreted as Stylesheet but transferred with MIME type text/html: "http://localhost:8000/?next=/staticfiles/css/style.css". localhost:12
Resource interpreted as Script but transferred with MIME type text/html: "http://localhost:8000/?next=/staticfiles/js/bootstrap.js". localhost:79
Resource interpreted as Script but transferred with MIME type text/html: "http://localhost:8000/?next=/staticfiles/js/login.js". 

I can't see what's wrong with my settings. Any ideas are most welcome.

Answer 1

as you can see in the warning box in the docs , in production (ie with debug=False ) you should be using your web server to serve static files, not django. For that reason, staticfiles will refuse to serve your assets if debug=False .

Answer 2

in settings.py::

if DEBUG: 
   STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '/static')
else:
   STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static') 

and in urls.py add

import django.views.static
urlpatterns += [
   url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', django.views.static.serve, {'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT, 'show_indexes': settings.DEBUG})
]

Answer 3

I'm using the code below in my root urls.py. You need to set FORCE_SERVE_STATIC to True in settings file if you want static and media to be served by django development server. And don't forget to run collectstatic command to update your static files.

from django.conf.urls.static import static
from django.conf import settings

<...>

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += static(
        settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
elif getattr(settings, 'FORCE_SERVE_STATIC', False):
    settings.DEBUG = True
    urlpatterns += static(
        settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
    urlpatterns += static(
        settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
    settings.DEBUG = False

Answer 4

This is a late answer but may be this will help someone. There is an extra option to be used with runserver command which force Django to serve static files even when DEBUG=False

python manage.py runserver --insecure

Django docs ref: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/staticfiles/#cmdoption-runserver-insecure

Answer 5

With debug turned off Django won't serve static files for you any more . Your production web server (Apache or Heroku or Pythonanywhere or something like this) should take care of that.

Answer 6

In your urls.py file:

add this line

from django.views.static import serve

add those two urls in urlpatterns:

url(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', serve,{'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', serve,{'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT}),