It doesn't appear that simple. When I try to insert {{MEDIA_URL}} into
my template, I get no output whatsoever. I haven't been able to find
anything on this.On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Sam Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes it already exists {{MEDIA_URL}} > > Thats what the settings.py file does... > > There is a bunch of stuff you can read about in the docs: > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/howto/static-files/ > > Also for some of my own deployments there are a bunch of static file > servers so i just put these into settings: > {{MEDIA_URL_VIDEO}} > {{MEDIA_URL_IMAGES}} > etc... > > Basically its as extensible as you want to make it. > > cheers > > sam_w > > > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Jon J <[email protected]> wrote: >> Maybe I'm missing something... >> >> I would say I'm relatively familiar with the Django framework by this >> point. I'm mocking up a website, and I want to link static files into >> the base template. Instead of having the url's directly in the >> template, I'd like to call the STATIC_URL variable from within the >> template, so for example I could have >> >> <link rel="style" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}style.css" /> >> >> instead of >> >> <link rel="style" type="text/css" href="http://www.domain.org/style.css"; /> >> >> Is this something that's possible or advisable? How is this problem >> normally handled so I don't have to retype pretty much everything if I >> move my site around? I haven't been able to find anything in the >> documentation regarding this. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
