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

Just open your project urls.py, then find this if statement.

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += patterns(
        'django.views.static',
        (r'^media/(?P.*)','serve',{'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}), )

You can change settings.DEBUG on True and it will work always. But if your project is a something serious then you should to think about other solutions mentioned above.

if True:
    urlpatterns += patterns(
        'django.views.static',
        (r'^media/(?P.*)','serve',{'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}), )

In django 1.10 you can write so:

urlpatterns += [ url(r'^media/(?P.*)$', serve, { 'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT, }), url(r'^static/(?P.*)$', serve, { 'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT }), ]