#29570: Document that MEDIA_URL inside STATIC_URL leads to unexpected behaviour
in
the development server
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Reporter: Alejandro Dubrovsky | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Documentation | Version: 2.0
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 1
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 1
UI/UX: 0 |
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Setting a MEDIA_URL that is within STATIC_URL, eg
'''
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
MEDIA_URL = os.path.join(STATIC_URL, 'upped') + '/'
'''
leads to the development server refusing to serve media files when
staticfiles is installed even if a URL route is specified since the
staticfiles.handlers.StaticFilesHandler takes over.
While there is a check in staticfiles warning that MEDIA_URL should not be
equals to STATIC_URL, it does not warn about the cases where STATIC_URL is
a prefix of MEDIA_URL. This also does not seem to be documented anywhere
that I've seen.
The suggestion to allow this seems to have been closed wontfix in
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/15199 so I won't attempt a patch.
Adding a check for this case does seem easy though, and I've attached a
patch that adds a warning to this ticket. The documentation could also
mention that adding an explicit url pattern for static and running
```python manage.py runserver --nostatic``` can be used as a workaround.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29570>
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