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Static files not working in Django


My static files were absolutely working fine, but yesterday I tried using the app allauth and since then my static files are not being displayed. It is not showing any css or js. I tried commenting the allauth app and even then it does not work.

However I just figured out the problem. Django is appending the wrong path to the static files. It should be /static/style.css but it is searching it at /"module-name"/style.css What could be the possible reason. I have correctly configured the static files path in the settings.py file as STATIC_URL = "/static"


Solution

  • allauth prescribes using TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS like this::

    TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
       ...
        "allauth.context_processors.allauth",
        "allauth.account.context_processors.account"
    )
    

    Here, the dots refer to whatever context processors you were using before. If you did not have any, you were implicitly using the Django defaults specified over here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/settings/#template-context-processors

    So I suspect your problem will go away when you insert the defaults where the dots are. Correct?