Django - static folder mapping in urls.py

Question

I have following files structure in my django app

|-myapp
|---static
|-----adminapp
|-----clientapp
|-----commonapp
|-----css
|-----fonts
|-----js
|---templates
|-----administration
|-------index.html
|-----client
|-------index.html

It's because I want to build two angular apps, one for users (static/clientapp) and one for admin (static/adminapp).

templates/administration/index.html and templates/client/index.html are similar and contains code like:

<head>
    <script src="static/js/angular.js"></script>
    <script src="static/adminapp/app.js"></script>
</head>
<body ng-app="adminapp"></body>

Links to my admin and client apps should be:

http://example.com/administration/  
http://example.com/client/

The question is what entry should I add to urls.py to let both angular apps access to the same static folder.

It must by something like:

url(r'^administration/static/$', STATIC_ROOT),
url(r'^client/static/$', STATIC_ROOT)

but I'm django newbie and I don't know how to define it correctly.

I don't understand your question. It's very unusual to use django's url router for static files. The development server just takes a root folder and then serves static content according to the directory structure there. It's not clear to me what you are trying to do. — Håken Lid
– Håken Lid, Commented Feb 6, 2016 at 19:14

culix · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-29 00:43:58Z

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In production you should not let Django handle the static files, so it should be in your nginx/appache config to set the correct paths for administation/static/ and client/static/.

For dev purposes, you could add something like this:

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += [
        url(r'^administation/static/(?P<path>.*)$', ' django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.ADMIN_STATIC_ROOT}),
        url(r'^client/static/(?P<path>.*)$', ' django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.CLIENT_STATIC_ROOT}),
   ]

Then you only have to define ADMIN_STATIC_ROOT and CLIENT_STATIC_ROOT in your settings.

edited Sep 29, 2019 at 0:43

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answered Feb 6, 2016 at 18:06

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culix Over a year ago

@akn , or for any one who might be interested - For some context on why people say "you should not let Django handle static files" or "It's very unusual to use django's url router for static files" - the Django docs on built-in views suggest "This view is not hardened for production use and should be used only as a development aid; you should serve these files in production using a real front-end web server"

akn · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-06 21:36:06Z

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The solution was to use / in urls to static resources.

e.g.

<script src="/static/js/angular.js"></script>

Then app base url has no matter.

answered Feb 6, 2016 at 21:36

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