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workspace
│ ├── superlists
│ │ ├── lists
│ │ │ ├── models.py
│ │ │
│ │ ├── manage.py
│ │ ├── superlists
│ │
│ ├── static
│ │ ├── base.css
│ │ ├── etc...
The logic is that the static files folder shouldn’t be a part of your repository—we don’t
want to put it under source control, because it’s a duplicate of all the files that are inside
lists/static
.
Here’s a neat way of specifying that folder, making it relative to the location of the
settings.py
file:
superlists/settings.py (ch07l018).
# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
#
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/static-files/STATIC_URL
=
'/static/'
STATIC_ROOT
=
os
.
path
.
abspath
(
os
.
path
.
join
(
BASE_DIR
,
'../static'
))
Take a look at the top of the settings file, and you’ll see how that
BASE_DIR
variable is
helpfully defined for us. Now let’s try running
collectstatic
:
$
python3 manage.py collectstatic
You have requested to collect static files at the destination
location as specified in your settings:
/workspace/static
This will overwrite existing files!
Are you sure you want to do this?
Type 'yes' to continue, or 'no' to cancel:
yes
[...]
Copying '/workspace/superlists/lists/static/bootstrap/fonts/glyphicons-halfling
s-regular.svg'
74 static files copied to '/workspace/static'.
And if we look in
../static
, we’ll find all our CSS files:
$
tree ../static/
../static/
├── admin
│ ├── css
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