If you're using contrib.staticfiles app, your DEBUG is True and you're using runserver django automagically maps (overrides) your staticfile serving.
If you want to manually add staticfile serving, you have to give --nostatic parameter to runserver to omit all magic that happena automatically. On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 07:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Wesley Ni <[email protected]> wrote: > I hit an issue when trying serve static files. > > In settings, debug is True, and with the followinig: > STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(freelancer_path,"staticfiles") > STATIC_URL = '/staticfiles/' > > urls.py: > (r'^staticfiles/(?P<path>.*)$','django.contrib.staticfiles.views.serve', > {'document_root' : STATIC_ROOT,'show_indexes' : True}), > > Problem is, when accessing http://127.0.0.1:8000/staticfiles/, I got this: > Page not found (404) > Request Method: GET > Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/staticfiles/ > > Why? I thought I would get folder indexes because I set show_indexes to > True. > > And, later, I find that, if I set the url pattern prefix not same to > STATIC_URL, > say, maybe : > (r'^files/(?P<path>.*)$','django.contrib.staticfiles.views.serve', > {'document_root' : STATIC_ROOT,'show_indexes' : True}), > And, then, http://127.0.0.1:8000/files/ is OK to show folder lists. > > Could anyone help explain and fix? > > Thanks. > Wesley > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Jani Tiainen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
