Question

I am using this guide to use Django ‘out-of-box’ with Google App Engine using Google Cloud SQL.

While most of the application is working fine, the static files (stylesheets and javascripts) are not displaying when I do dev_appserver.py myapp though they display fine if I run through manage.py runserver

Directly accessing the file shows following error:

Page Not Found (404):
Using the URLconf defined in urls, Django tried these URL patterns, in this order:
^$
^trades/
^login/$ [name='login']
^logout/$ [name='logout']
^admin/
The current URL, static/css/basic.css, didn't match any of these.

Please provide any leads.

[P.S. I am using Django version 1.3, python 2.7 and Google Appengine SDK 1.6.3 pre-release (as it supports Django 1.3 with python 2.7).]

Answer 1

That guide doesn’t show how to set up static_files (or static_dir) in app.yaml (which is covered here in the GAE Python documentation). Have you done that?