Question

I’m just crushing my head about how to setup my URL settings in order they serve the static files correctly.

For development my URL settings look like this.

(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
    {'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT, 'show_indexes': True}),

But I assume I have to change this setting because django.views.static.serve is intended to be used only for development. At least this was stated in the docs for Django 1.1. Whereas no disclaimer to be found in the docs for Django 1.4, which I’m currently using.

I’m using django-storages with s3 to serve the static files.

Answer 1

I would use django cumulus
It has great documentation, i’ve used it successfully to serve static files from amazon and rackspace cdn

Cumulus docs will show you exactly what to do in your settings file for static config

If you don’t want to – set your static URL to your amazon bucket
in my case i’m using rackspace so my static url looks like:
STATIC_URL = ‘//csk3ls.r93.d2.rackcdn.com/’