Question

Here are my settings:

STATIC_ROOT = "/home/tony/Documents/mysite/mysite/"

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
"/home/tony/Documents/mysite/mysite/static/",
)

And here I refer my stylesheet(This gives me an error):

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}/css/reset.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}/css/style.css" />

And the error in the log:

[06/Apr/2012 13:36:09] "GET /css/reset.css HTTP/1.1" 404 2193
[06/Apr/2012 13:36:09] "GET /css/style.css HTTP/1.1" 404 2193

How I thought I fixed it:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}static/css/reset.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}static/css/style.css" />    

And it worked until I made another view-:

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext

def test(request):
    return render_to_response('test.html')

And in the template I added the {% extends ‘base/base.html’ %} and what do I get in the logs? this:

[06/Apr/2012 13:46:55] "GET /test/ HTTP/1.1" 200 964
[06/Apr/2012 13:46:55] "GET /test/static/css/style.css HTTP/1.1" 404 2229
[06/Apr/2012 13:46:55] "GET /test/static/css/reset.css HTTP/1.1" 404 2229

Notice the /test/? It doesn’t load the css.
Any idea why?(I never had this problem with django1.3)

Thanks in advance 🙂

Answer 1

You’re not using RequestContext to render your template, so the context processors aren’t being run and therefore STATIC_URL is empty.