Static File Management in Django

Static files management

Static files refer to files such as css, javascript, and images.

In the development phase:

1. Add 'django. contrib. staticfiles' in settings to set INSTALLED_APPS '.

2. Set STATIC_URL to '/static /'.

3. Place the static files used by an app to my_app/static/my_app, for example, my_app/static/my_ap.my_image.jpg.

Of course, it can also be directly stored in my_app/static, but in this case, if there are static files with the same name in different apps, there will be conflicts.

4. Use in the template

{% load staticfiles %}

5. If some static files are not used by an app, you can create a static folder to place the static files, and set settings:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),    '/var/www/static/',)

In the deployment phase, Set

STATIC_ROOT = "/var/www/example.com/static/"

Then run

python manage.py collectstatic

Collect static files in each app and static files in STATICFILES_DIRS and place them in STATIC_ROOT.

Media Management

MEDIA: a user-uploaded file, such as a FileFIeld in the Model and an ImageField file.

Assume there is a Model.

from django.db import modelsclass Car(models.Model):    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)    price = models.DecimalField(max_digits=5, decimal_places=2)    photo = models.ImageField(upload_to='cars')

Set MEDIA_ROOT = OS. path. join (BASE_DIR, 'media') to store uploaded files.

MEDIA_URL =/media/, which creates a url for the file in MEDIA_ROOT.

When a Car instance is created, the image of the Car ImageField is saved in the media/cars folder.

>>> car = Car.objects.get(name="57 Chevy")>>> car.photo<ImageFieldFile: chevy.jpg>>>> car.photo.nameu'cars/chevy.jpg'>>> car.photo.pathu'/media/cars/chevy.jpg'>>> car.photo.urlu'/media/cars/chevy.jpg'

Use images in templates

Use in urls. pyDjango. contrib. staticfiles. views. serve ()View

from django.conf import settings #from myapp import settingsfrom django.conf.urls.static import staticurlpatterns = patterns('',    # ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...) + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

In this way, you can use the media file.