Am working with django 1.3 and doing some template inheritance. My /static/ settings path seems to have problems once I leave the home page. Issue is, when I load home.html which inherits from base.html, the CSS and Image links work okay. But once I go to an extra URL (in this case vehicle.html), the css and image get lost with the error below:
console error
"GET /static/%20/static/images/logo_2.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 1771
"GET /static/%20/static/css/default.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1765
view page source
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/ /static/css/default.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/ /static/css/default.css">
It looks like some space is appearing from somewhere. Also, from the vehilce.html file, the page source shows that its adding an extra /static/ to the url plust the space. Where could I be going wrong? See below for my documents:
settings.py
STATIC_ROOT = 'D:/dev/workspace/vehicle_request/vehicle_request/mvmanager/static/'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
urls.py
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^$', home_page),
(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',{'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}), #Not in use in my code yet
(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',{'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT}),
(r'^vehicle/', vehicle),
(r'^driver/', driver),
base.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{STATIC_URL}}/static/css/default.css">
<title>{% block title %}{% endblock %}</title>
</head>
<body>
<header>
<a href="http://localhost:8000" title="Home Page">
<img alt="logo2:" src="{{ STATIC_URL }}/static/images/logo_2.jpg"
style="float:left; margin:5px" height="100"; border=none"></a><br><br>
<h1>Vehicle Request System <span class="version">(Version 0.1 beta)</span></h1>
</header>
<hr style="clear: left">
<hr>
</body>
</html>
vehicle.html
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block title %}Vehicle Registration{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<html>
<head></head>
<body></body>
</html>
{% endblock %}
Thanks.
Edits
1. I’ve changed the stati in href="{{STATIC_URL}} /static/css/default.css"> to read static as that is how it is in my code. I must have backspaced by mistake while posting. Moving on however,
2. When I change {{STATIC_url}} /Static to {{STATIC_URL}}/Static ie. I remove the space between those two words -as suggested by @sarnold below-, home.html works as usual but vehicle.html still doesn’t load the css and the image and it spews the error below in the console:
File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\files\storage.py", line 234, in path
raise SuspiciousOperation("Attempted access to '%s' denied." % name)
SuspiciousOperation: Attempted access to '\static\images\logo_2.jpg' denied.
[10/Feb/2012 06:11:55] "GET /static//static/images/logo_2.jpg HTTP/1.1" 500 1731
File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\files\storage.py", line 234, in path
raise SuspiciousOperation("Attempted access to '%s' denied." % name)
SuspiciousOperation: Attempted access to '\static\css\default.css' denied.
[10/Feb/2012 06:23:29] "GET /static//static/images/logo_2.jpg HTTP/1.1" 500 1731
3. When I combine @sarnold and @cptphil suggestions, vehicle.html loads perfectly the css and the image. home.html however fails. See the changes to base.html below:
base.html (edited to look like this)
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{STATIC_URL}}css/default.css">
<img alt="logo2:" src="{{STATIC_URL}}images/logo_2.jpg"
home.html now doesnt’ work! (viewing page source)
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/default.css">
<img alt="logo2:" src="images/logo_2.jpg"
vehicle.html now works (viewing page source)
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/css/default.css">
<img alt="logo2:" src="/static/images/logo_2.jpg"
And this is how the home.html looks like in raw form
{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block title %}GEL: Vehicle Request System{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
{% endblock %}
I believe the template engine is doing what you are asking it to do.
correctly translates to
Try
in base.html if what you are after is
Can’t account for why home.html would work correctly though.