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Kayla Johnson
1,798 PointsHow to pull from the app directory, not the main directory
I have an app, locations, where I am editing the admin.py. I want to add a js and a css file located in the static directory of my app.
I use:
class Media:
js = ('js/main.js',)
css = {
'all': ('css/styles.css',)
}
and it's trying to pull from the static directory in the overall project directory. I try changing the path to something like 'locations/static/js/main.js' and it is a 404.
1 Answer
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Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherIt'll look in the app directory first and fall back to the project-level directory second.
By default, assuming an app named locations
, Django would look for <project>/locations/static/locations/css/styles.css
before falling back to whatever you had set up for STATICFILES_DIRS
.