Question

I am using Django 1.3.1 and Python 2.7 on WinVista. I am experiencing the same problem whether on the local dev serer or when deployed to my host.

On the main page of my site static media shows:

http://www.drugpolicyreformmovement.com

On secondary pages CSS, images, etc. do not display:

http://www.drugpolicyreformmovement.com/newsarchive2003

http://www.drugpolicyreformmovement.com/newsarchive2010

or

http://www.drugpolicyreformmovement.com/newsarchive2009

The output of ‘manage runserver’ shows a 404 error for static media on those secondary ‘newsarchive’ pages. Somehow ‘document_root’ is different on a secondary page as opposed to the main page, such that it looks in ‘/newsclippings2003/static’ on those secondary pages instead of just looking in ‘/static’ for everything as it should and like it did for the front page.

I don’t know what of my URLconf is relevant to you so I have included the whole file here:

import os
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.views.generic import ListView, YearArchiveView
from newsclippings.models import Article
from drugpolicyreformmovement.views import ArticleYearArchiveView

# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^$', ListView.as_view(
       queryset = Article.objects.order_by("-date", "publication", "author", "headline"),
       context_object_name='articles',
       template_name='index.html')),
    (r'^newsarchive(?P<year>\d+)/$', ArticleYearArchiveView.as_view()),
    (r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
       { 'document_root' : os.path.join( os.path.dirname(__file__), 'static') }),
    # url(r'^drugpolicyreformmovement/', include('drugpolicyreformmovement.foo.urls')),

    # Uncomment the admin/doc line below to enable admin documentation:
    # url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),

    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

Again, I think this is the problematic line:

(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
    { 'document_root' : os.path.join( os.path.dirname(__file__), 'static') }),

It doesn’t matter what order I put URLconf entries. This line was designed so I wouldn’t have to make changes when I deploy.

Answer 1

Your url in first page is

http://www.drugpolicyreformmovement.com/static/css/blueprint/print.css

in inner page

http://www.drugpolicyreformmovement.com/newsarchive2003/static/css/blueprint/print.css

just add / in url or use {{ STATIC_URL }}

for example

• /static/css/blueprint/print.css

or

• <img src="{{ STATIC_URL }}css/blueprint/print.css" />

just set STATIC_ROOT in settings

see here:

• Django | Managing static files | Django documentation ->
  https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/