Question

I am following along with this Django blog tutorial and can not get the url pattern given in the tutorial to work properly. The url.py code the author gives is

(r'^static/(?P
.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
    {'document_root': 'c:/static/adornment'}),)

and I adapted it to my Linux set up like this

from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include, url

urlpatterns = patterns('',
        (r'^static/(.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
            {'document_root': '/home/sez/blog/static/image.png'}
        ),
)  

and after going to http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/image.png I received the following error

Page not found (404)
Request Method: GET
Request URL:    http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/image.png
'image.png' could not be found

How can I make this work?

Answer 1

Change up your ‘document_root’ to be a directory, and make sure your STATIC_URL setting is set to /static/