cjl wrote: > John: > > I've added a section at the end of the first chapter of my tutorial > that describes how to serve static content with the Django development > server, which seems to be a frequently asked question. See: > > http://www.instantdjango.com/chapter1.html > > Check it out, and let me know if you have any questions. > > Note that I am using relative paths. >
Thanks. Yes, using relative paths is the right idea - it's a shame that the base url's have to be hard coded in the templates. I understand from a web efficiency standpoint of Django not handling static content but from an application development standpoint this is a real complexity we don't need. I can see this becoming a real mess when constantly updating between development and production. I did see another blog which demonstrated a way to use base url variables for static content with template tags but again this cummulative complexity for common things just becomes a showstopper for us. Somehow the base url path should just be a simple entry in Settings.py and defaulted to the project location. Perhaps Django just hasn't reached the ease of use maturity that we need or perhaps it never will. I'm not looking to argue, just acknowledging our situation. For now, I think we'll stay with Rails for rapid prototyping (which is more agile for us) and PHP for production, however ugly that is. btw: I think another section you could write on is deployment - ease of deployment seems frequently overlooked by many frameworks and is the major reason for us (and a lot of others I know) still using PHP, though I keep looking for something better. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
