Exactly. Perhaps we should just ignore MEDIA and STATIC variable setup in the settings file altogether. When I couldn't get the variables to work like how I thought they should work, I just put the following stuff in the Apache vhost config file:
Alias /media /Users/eiji/Sites/assets/media Alias /static /Users/eiji/Sites/assets/static Alias /admin/media/ /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/ But the problem is then I have to always use Apache even during development, and I can't use Django's built-in web server. It seems very repetitive to have to set: MEDIA_ROOT = '/path/to/mymedia' MEDIA_URL = '/media/' in the settings file, then add almost the same thing to the Apache conf file, and, in the case of STATIC, I also have to set the STATICFILES_DIRS again with almost the same things. Hmmm... Eiji On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:21 PM, km <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Shawn Milochik <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Did you read the docs? >> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/contrib/staticfiles/ >> >> To use the staticfiles app you need to not only put the right things in >> settings.py, but also run manage.py collectstatic to gather up all your >> static content, then rsync/copy/whatever that content to the proper location >> on your server so that the stuff you put in settings.py is valid. >> >> Same thing for media, to some extent (no 'collectstatic' analog). Django's >> not going to serve your media or your static content in production. That's >> going to be up to your Web server (Apache/nginx/lighttpd/whatever), and >> setting that up properly is your job. It's way outside of the scope of >> Django to do this for you. >> >> If django is not going to serve media in production and we totally depend > on webserver to do that then what is the point in having variables such as > MEDIA and STATIC ? > > Probably, one can setup -static media- on the webserver which could be > accessed as www.url/media and thus refer to this relative path as /media in > templates instead of {{MEDIA}} or {{STATIC}}; which is much simpler than > meddling with STATIC or MEDIA variables. Isnt it ? > > KM > >> >> >> -- >> 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.
