Django: how do you serve media / stylesheets and link to them within templates

Question

Variations of this question have been asked, but I\'m still unable to get my stylesheets to load correctly when my templates are rendered.

I\'m attempting to serve s

Answer 1

Just thought I'd chime in quickly. While all the propositions here work just fine, and I do use Ty's example while developing, once you hit production you might want to opt to serve files via a straight Apache, or whichever else server you're using.

What I do is I setup a subdomain once I'm done developing, and replace all links to static media. For instance:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://static.mydomain.com/css/style.css" />

The reasons for doing this are two-fold. First, it just seems like it would be slower to have Django handle these requests when it's not needed. Second, since most browsers can actually download files simultaneously from 3 different domains, using a second sub-domain for your static files will actually speed up the download speed of your users.