Loading A CSS File From Django Template

Question

I have looked through several answers for loading CSS pages. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/

Basically, I believe my question should be how do I get staticfiles installed?

I am confused about the settings in settings.py, and I get this error when trying to run collectstatic.

./manage.py collectstatic
Unknown command: 'collectstatic'

In settings.py, I've added

'django.contrib.staticfiles',

to INSTALLED_APS

and

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
 "/home/amr/django/static_media",
)

STATIC_ROOT = "/home/amr/django/static_media"

The error I'm getting is there is no module staticfiles.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-30 15:40:54Z

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That documentation is for the development version of Django. If you're running a stable version then you should examine the appropriate docs by clicking on the version number at the top of the article.

answered Nov 30, 2010 at 15:40

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octopusgrabbus Over a year ago

This is where I load the css file in my base template<html>  <head> <title>{% block title %}Town of Arlington Water Department AMR System{% endblock %} </title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static_media/amr.css" /> </head> This is the css file (for now) body{ background-color: gray;} p { color: blue; } h3{ color: white; } I've added this to urls.py (r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': '/home/amr/django'}), Where can I check to see why this is not loading?

octopusgrabbus Over a year ago

Thanks for your answer. I looked for the 1.2.3 documentation.

Dmitry · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-17 21:14:30Z

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Try running it with sudo. Available commands are limited based on your access level.

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vinilios · Accepted Answer · 2010-11-30 15:44:05Z

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It seems like you are running an old version of django, the staticfiles application is included in the latest 1.3-alpha or trunk version. To find out which version of django your project is running on try running the following command on a shell

$ python -c "import django; print django.get_version()"

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asldfkjasdlfjapsdl · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-28 23:33:27Z

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It's worth noting that the docs for 1.2 here:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/howto/static-files/

are the same as 1.3

however, this is obviously totally wrong.

So the first answer here is frustratingly misleading.

answered Jan 28, 2011 at 23:33

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