Question

Maybe this question has been asked a lot,
but I still can’t understand how to load CSS files when using django…
Please can anyone explain to me step by step how to load it?
Can I load the CSS file without the static folder or link, so I don’t need to change the urls.conf but just setting in “setting.py” file?

(Sorry if my English is bad”) 🙁

Answer 1

on local machine: you have to add:

(r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': '/path/to/media'}),

on a server you don’t (and more you shouldn’t for security reasons) need the previous line.

So finally: here is my architecture:

project/
   app1/
     __init.py__
     views.py
   public/
     site_media/
        js/
           example.js
        css/
           example.css

in my settings.py:

MEDIA_ROOT = '/thecompletepath/public/site_media/'
MEDIA_URL = '/site_media/'

and in my templates, i use:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/site_media/css/example.css" media="screen" />