perfect thanks Javier. I guess my question should have been phrased, if debug = False, does the runserver serve static files from the STATIC_ROOT. Clearly that's no.
Thanks again. Fred On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:19:01 PM UTC, Javier Guerra wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Fred Kingham > <fredk...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Can you serve static files like you would in production from the django > > runserver? > > it depends on what you mean by "like you would in production": > > if you mean "separate processes for static files and web app" then no, > it can't since it's a single server. > > if you mean simply serve static files by whatever mechanisms but > keeping the same URLs, then yes. check > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/contrib/staticfiles/#django.contrib.staticfiles.templatetags.staticfiles.django.contrib.staticfiles.views.serve > > (almost at the end of the contrib/staticfiles doc page). in short, > it simply adds some a view function to handle STATIC_URL from the > files in any directory searchable by collectstatic. note that that > means you don't have to run collectstatic for it to work, it's only > needed for deployment. > > > -- > Javier > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/7sm3q9QqTUQJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
