Django: how to make STATIC_URL empty?

Question

Yep, I want it to work like in Flask framework - there I could set parameters like this:

static_folder=os.getcwd()+\"/static/\", static_url_path=\"\"

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Answer 1

I believe this is not supported out of the box. Off the top of my head, one way to do it would be with a special 404 handler that, having failed to match against any of the defined URLs, treats the request as a request for a static resource. This would be reasonably easy to do in the development environment but significantly more difficult when nginx, Apache, and/or gunicorn get involved.

In other words, don't do this. Nest your statics (or put them on a different sub domain) but don't mix the URL hierarchy in this way.

Answer 2

This is really easy to accomplish with Nginx using try_files. Using the pseudo-settings below will make Nginx try to find a static file first, and if it fails then execution is passed to your django app.

server {
  ...
  root /some/path/to/assets/;
  try_files $uri @django;

  location @django {
    ...
    proxy_pass  http://unix:/some/path/to/server.sock;
  }
}

Example: The file /some/path/to/assets/myfile.ext will be available as http://mydomain/myfile.ext