Question

Simple question:

What happens to {{ STATIC_URL }} variable in deployment?. For example, if I’m using a filter like this:

@register.filter
def new_filter(g):
    from myapp import settings
    STATIC_URL = settings.STATIC_URL
    return STATIC_URL + 'dir/' + g

Am I going to have problems or Django will still point to the same STATIC_URL as it is in localhost?.

I have read the documentation but I’m still not sure about this.

Regards

Answer 1

Your filter will always point to whatever is defined in settings.STATIC_URL – end of story.

If you change the settings for production, your filter will now point to your new STATIC_URL. If you don’t, it wont.

If your STATIC_URL is a relative URL, your URLs will automatically resolve to the host.

• /static/ on development might be looked up as localhost/static/
• /static/ on production example.com the browser will attempt example.com/static/

If it’s absolute, then well production or development the browser will read the same resource until you change STATIC_URL.