Django media URLs in CSS files

Question

In django templates, it\'s common to do the following:

How would you accomplish this in a

Answer 1

Sorry, you won't like the answer.

I've got the same problem:

There is no easy way to do this with static-served CSS files.

What I do:

• debug server, work locally, media served locally
• production server is hosted out somewhere commercial w/media on Amazon S3
• settings.py file auto sets MEDIA_URL (DEBUG, etc.) via hostname check (to differentiate production vs. local/home/debug)
• HTML files all have css links with {{MEDIA_URL}} (+RequestContext contexts for views)
• I like absolute path names, so an "update_s3" script: (1) alters each css file is temporarily to fix 'url("/media' to 'url("s3.mydomain.com/media' and (2) updates/uploads my /media directory to Amazon S3

I then go to production and do an svn update & touch the WSGI file & validate