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Asked: 2026-06-11T15:58:03+00:00

In my django app ,I have put these settings settings.py ———— MEDIA_ROOT = ‘/home/me/dev/python/django/myproject/myapp/media/’

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In my django app ,I have put these settings

settings.py
------------
MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/me/dev/python/django/myproject/myapp/media/'
MEDIA_URL = '/site_media/'

urls.py
--------
...
url(r'^myapp/', include('myapp.urls')),
url(r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$','django.views.static.serve',{'document_root':settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),

I created a css file in '/home/me/dev/python/django/myproject/myapp/media/css' folder and included this in template as below

base.html
--------
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>my app</title>
<LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF="{{MEDIA_URL}}css/myappstyle.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA="screen, print"/>

home.html
---------
{% extends "mywebapp/base.html" %}>
{% block title %}{{block.super}}| Home {% endblock %}

{% block content %}
   {{block.super}}
   hi
{% endblock %}

Then I created a view as below

def custom_render(request,context,template):
    req_context=RequestContext(request,context)
    return render_to_response(template,req_context)

def home(request,template_name,page_title):
    print 'home'
    return render_to_response(template_name,{'me':'myname'})

and set its url conf

myapp.urls
--------

urlpatterns=patterns('',
  url(r'^$','myapp.views.home',
      {
         'template_name':'mywebapp/home.html',
         'page_title':'Home'
       },
      name='home'),

when I give the url

http://127.0.0.1:8000/myapp/

The web page gets rendered ,but css is not.The console output shows a 404 error

[14/Sep/2012 10:02:50] "GET /myapp/ HTTP/1.1" 200 547
[14/Sep/2012 10:02:50] "GET /myapp/css/myappstyle.css HTTP/1.1" 404 2514

But,when I give the url,

http://127.0.0.1:8000/site_media/css/myappstyle.css

I can see the contents of the css file without any problems.

Why does this happen? can someone help me figure this out?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to use RequestContext() while rendering response for home view also (as you have done for custom_render view).

    Otherwise {{MEDIA_URL}} will be empty which will result in 404 error.

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