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I have a django application that sends off an email containing image files as MIME attachments. The emails are sent from views.py, but in order to attach the files, I need to get the full path name of the image(s), so python can open them. These files are in the static folder in my app, but I can't seem to find a way that I can get the full path of the file on the filesystem that works in development mode - It works fine in production after collecting static, but in dev, it can't find the file as the static files are served from individual app folders in development.
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Make sure that django.contrib.staticfiles is included in your INSTALLED_APPS . In your templates, use the static template tag to build the URL for the given relative path using the configured STATICFILES_STORAGE . Store your static files in a folder called static in your app.
STATICFILES_DIRS tells Django where to look for static files in a Django project, such as a top-level static folder. STATIC_ROOT is the folder location of static files when collectstatic is run. STATICFILES_STORAGE is the file storage engine used when collecting static files with the collectstatic command.
"STATIC_ROOT" sets the absolute path to the folder where static files used for the apps and admin in a django project are stored and this command below creates the folder and collects static files from the apps and admin in a django project into the folder (*Setting "STATIC_ROOT" never ever influence to static file URL ...
First off, you'll typically find these three types of files in a Django project: Source code: These are your core Python modules and HTML files that make up every Django project, where you define your models, views, and templates. Static files: These are your CSS stylesheets, JavaScript files, fonts, and images.
Use finders-module of Django
from django.contrib.staticfiles import finders result = finders.find('css/base.css') searched_locations = finders.searched_locations String result is the file-system path, and if not found, double check searched_locations
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project_dir.url add to the end of file
if DEBUG: urlpatterns += patterns( '', url(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': MEDIA_ROOT}), url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': STATIC_ROOT}), ) project_dir.settings
STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'), ) STATICFILES_FINDERS = ( 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder', 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder', ) STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static_debug') STATIC_URL = '/static/' MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media') MEDIA_URL = '/media/' make dirs media & static_debug (add them to .gitignore)
project_dir/ static/ image.jpg settings.py urls.py apps/ __init__.py some_app/ static/ some_app/ css/ style.css media/ static_debug/ Now you can run project or directly
python manage.py collectstatic access from views
from django.templatetags.static import static static('image.jpg') static('some_app/css/style.css') access from templates
{% load staticfiles %} {% static 'image.jpg' %} {% static 'some_app/css/style.css' %} If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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