Django: static files in a 404 template

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7946180

Question

How to include stylesheets and images into a 404 page template using the default view?

I created a 404.html file in the root of the site's templates directory:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    {% load static %}
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% get_static_prefix %}css/404.css" />
</head>
<body class="page-404">
    <p>Not found.</p>
</body>
</html>

Ironically, the 404.css is not found. The 404.css file is located in one of the apps' static directory.

The server is manage.py runserver. On every other page static files are served just well.

Update: It appears, after setting DEBUG = False in the settings.py, static files on all other pages stopped being served, too.

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Solution

It appears, staticfiles app does work with DEBUG = False. Only it doesn’t pick up files from individual apps’ static directories. It would serve files from the global STATIC_ROOT directory (from settings.py).

To get the static files copied to STATIC_ROOT, you need to run the collectstatic command:

python manage.py collectstatic

OTHER TIPS

As contest_processor.static is in the TEMPLATE_CONTEXT already! you can just use the variable STATIC_URL in your template: follow doc:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/templates/api/#django-core-context-processors-static

If TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS contains this processor, every RequestContext will contain a variable STATIC_URL, providing the value of the STATIC_URL setting.

And we also know that the 404 view handler use a RequestContext Object, follow code took from django.views.defaults.py:

return http.HttpResponseNotFound(t.render(RequestContext(request, {'request_path': request.path})))

So just use {{ STATIC_URL }} in your template, it should work!

When I'm using DEBUG=True, I usually have this snippet in my root urlconf:

(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
    {'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT}),
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