Django 1.4 and django-compressor strangeness

Question

I use django-compressor 1.1.2 with Django 1.4 when using compress templatetags PROJECT_PATH appended to STATIC_URL after compression

/static/Users/sultan/.virtualenvs/mediabox/somedia/somedia/public/media/media-cache/compressor/css/1d7cd4216904.css

When I don't set COMPRESS_OUTPUT_DIR = os.path.join(MEDIA_CACHE, 'compressor')

Output looks like

/static/CACHE/css/1d7cd4216904.css

settings

STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    ...
    'compressor.finders.CompressorFinder'
)

COMPRESS_ENABLED = True
COMPRESS_OUTPUT_DIR = os.path.join(MEDIA_CACHE, 'compressor')

What is wrong with my configuration?

Thanks,

Sultan

Answer 1

According to the doc

django.conf.settings.COMPRESS_OUTPUT_DIR 
Default :   'CACHE' 
Controls the directory inside COMPRESS_ROOT that compressed files will be written to.)

I don't know what's your MEDIA_CACHE setting here, but you don't need to join directories to generate COMPRESS_OUTPUT_DIR, just give it a relative name such as 'compressor' or 'cache' to try.