#10636: Development server fails if settings module does not define
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX
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Reporter: Lee Phillips <[email protected]> | Owner:
nobody
Status: reopened | Milestone:
Component: Uncategorized | Version: 1.2
Resolution: | Keywords:
Stage: Unreviewed | Has_patch: 0
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 0
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Changes (by [email protected]):
* status: closed => reopened
* version: 1.0 => 1.2
* resolution: invalid =>
Comment:
From kmtracey in #14607:
''It is a duplicate: #10636 is the same. Why did you want to set
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX to an empty value? Perhaps the docs could warn to not
do that, or some check could be put in to raise ImproperlyConfigured if
that is done, by I'm a little mystified as to why people are doing this.
If you really want to pursue getting something changed here, please reopen
#10636 and provide a concrete suggestion for how to improve matters (and
please try the current trunk behavior, since it may have changed recently
given the static file changes).''
Leaving ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX is certainly an incorrect configuration, but
one that people may try when attempting to serve admin media files.
People are doing it accidentally, not deliberately. The problem is that
despite DEBUG being set to true, no helpful trace is provided, just the
simple 404.
Because it manifests in the user's browser as a standard 404, this failure
mode makes some people think there might be a problem with their django or
webserver setup, rather than a problem with their code. It appears like
the web browser is unable to reach the webserver.
Concrete suggestion for improvement: If ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX is empty,
output an error trace page saying "ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX in settings.py is
empty. This is probably not what you want to do." Additionally, the docs
should warn against this configuration.
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