Why does DEBUG=False setting make my django Static Files Access fail?

Question

Am building an app using Django as my workhorse. All has been well so far - specified db settings, configured static directories, urls, views etc. But trouble started sneaki

Answer 1

You can debug this in many different ways. Here's my approach.

localsettings.py:

DEBUG = False
DEBUG404 = True

urls.py:

from django.conf import settings
import os

if settings.DEBUG404:
    urlpatterns += patterns('',
        (r'^static/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
         {'document_root': os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'static')} ),
    )

Be sure to read the docs ;)

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/howto/static-files/#limiting-use-to-debug-true