django css and js files

Question

I am unable to use CSS and JS files in my django project.

Folder structure:

mysite/
mysite/mysite/settings.py
mysite/mysite/templates/base.html
mysite/mysite/assets/css/...

settings.py

PROJECT_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
MEDIA_ROOT = ''
MEDIA_URL = ''
STATIC_ROOT = ''
STATIC_URL = 'static'
STATICFILES_DIRS = ()
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
#    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
)

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    'django.contrib.admin',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
    # 'django.contrib.admindocs',
)

urls.py

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',...)

if settings.DEBUG:
  urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

base.html

running python manage.py collectstatic returns:

"Your STATICFILES_DIRS setting is not a tuple or list; "
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Your STATICFILES_DIRS setting is not a tuple or list; perhaps you forgot a trailing comma?

Where is your static folder? Have you run collectstatic? STATIC_URL should be /static/ — Timmy O'Mahony
– Timmy O'Mahony, Commented Aug 15, 2012 at 12:44
also, STATIC_ROOT should have a trailing /: STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'static/') — Timmy O'Mahony
– Timmy O'Mahony, Commented Aug 15, 2012 at 12:59

Chris Pratt · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-15 14:35:08Z

9

You never manually put anything STATIC_ROOT. It is only a dumping ground for collectstatic in production; it shouldn't even exist in development.

All of your static resources need to go in one of your apps' static directories, or if you need project-wide resources, you must create an entirely different directory for that is not the same as either MEDIA_ROOT or STATIC_ROOT and add it to STATICFILES_DIRS:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'assets'),
)

You can call it whatever you want; I typically use "assets". Just don't name it "static", "media", "site_media", etc., just to avoid confusion.

answered Aug 15, 2012 at 14:35

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kristian nissen Over a year ago

I moved the files to mysite/mysite/assets, changed static_files_dirs as you described, but I get ""Your STATICFILES_DIRS setting is not a tuple or list; " django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Your STATICFILES_DIRS setting is not a tuple or list; perhaps you forgot a trailing comma?"

Chris Pratt Over a year ago

If you copied and pasted what I had, you would not be getting that error. What did you change?

kristian nissen Over a year ago

I moved the assets folder so that it matches the path of PROJECT_PATH , that's it.

kristian nissen Over a year ago

hhmmm adding the "," after os.path.join() did the trick it seams. Weird

supervacuo Over a year ago

@kristiannissen yes, because (1,) is a tuple (as required for that particular setting) whereas (1) is interpreted as 1.

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