django-staticfiles

I'm using django staticfiles + django-storages and Amazon S3 to host my data. All is working well except that every time I run manage.py collectstatic the command uploads all files to the server. It looks like the management command compares timestamps from Storage.modified_time() which isn't implemented in the S3 storage from django-storages. How do you guys determine if an S3 file has been modified? I could store file paths and last modified data in my database. Or is there an easy way to pull the last modified data from Amazon? Another option: it looks like I can assign arbitrary metadata

I'm getting a ValueError when running python manage.py test . My project is named fellow_go , and I'm currently working on an App called pickup . Please note that this error is added in a relatively recent commit to Django: Fixed #24452 -- Fixed HashedFilesMixin correctness with nested paths. . ====================================================================== ERROR: test_view_url_exists_at_desired_location (pickup.tests.test_view.HomePageViewTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/sunqingyao

I'm using Django 1.3 and I realize it has a collectstatic command to collect static files into STATIC_ROOT . Here I have some other global files that need to be served using STATICFILES_DIR . Can I make them use the same dir ? Thanks. No. In fact, the file django/contrib/staticfiles/finders.py even checks for this and raises an ImproperlyConfigured exception when you do so: "The STATICFILES_DIRS setting should not contain the STATIC_ROOT setting" The STATICFILES_DIRS can contain other directories (not necessarily app directories) with static files and these static files will be collected into

Questions exactly like this have been asked before, i've read them all and tried to make sense of the official django documentation on the subject but i'm still struggling to use static files on the virtual server. More specifically i'm just trying to get my template, Base.html , to use base.css. My folder structure looks like this: manage.py static/CSS/base.css VergeGreenITEvent_Website/settings.py VergeGreenITEvent_Website/views.py ect VergeGreenITEvent_Website/Webpage_Templates/Base.html (no app folder at the moment, as I was following "The django book" to learn and hadn't gotten to that

This question seems to be asked several time but I can not fix it. I deployed a django app on production with DEBUG = False . I set my allowed_host . I used {% load static from staticfiles %} to load static files. I exactly write the settings sugested by Heroku doc : BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)) PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'staticfiles') STATIC_URL = '/static/' STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static'), ) STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.django.GzipManifestStaticFilesStorage' BUT I

This is probably a stupid question, but it's just not clicking in my head. In Django, the convention is to put all of your static files (i.e css, js) specific to your app into a folder called static . So the structure would look like this: mysite/ manage.py mysite/ --> (settings.py, etc) myapp/ --> (models.py, views.py, etc) static/ In mysite/settings.py I have: STATIC_ROOT = 'staticfiles' So when I run the command: python manage.py collectstatic It creates a folder called staticfiles at the root level (so same directory as myapp/) What's the point of this? Isn't it just creating a copy of all