Introduction

Base Django app with login/logout functionality. The premise is, to start new Django project, all we need to do is:-

1. Create a django project (settings.py and urls.py).
2. Enable kecupuapp_base in INSTALLED_APPS.
3. Point url pattern to kecupu.base app:-

    cat - >> urls.py
    from django.conf.urls.defaults import *

    urlpatterns = patterns('multilevel.views',
        (r'^$', 'index'),
        (r'^accounts/', include('kecupuapp_base.urls', namespace='kecupuapp_base', app_name='kecupuapp_base')),
    )
    ^D

4. Enable template context processor kecupuapp_base.context_processors.base_site.

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
    "django.core.context_processors.debug",
    "django.core.context_processors.i18n",
    "django.core.context_processors.media",
    "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",
    'staticfiles.context_processors.static_url',
    'kecupuapp_base.context_processors.base_site',
)

Static Files

Use django-staticfiles==0.3.4 app to easily manage static files. kecupuapp_base.context_processors.base_site defined template variables named STATIC_URL which default to /static/.

Define STATIC_ROOT in settings.py.

....
INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ....
    'staticfiles',
)
STATIC_ROOT = /var/www/html/

$ django-admin.py build_static --settings=project.settings

Above command would correctly copy all the static files to the specified STATIC_ROOT directory. build_static only copy media files under the INSTALLED_APPS directory. For media files under project directory, we can specify in settings:- STATICFILES_DIRS = ( ('', os.path.join(os.path.dirname(file), 'media')), )

'' empty string mean we copy the files to the root of static root dir.

To serve the static files through dev server, add to the urls.py:-

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += patterns('',
        (r'^static/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
                {'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT}),
    )

Ref:-

• http://django-staticfiles.readthedocs.org/index.html

TODO

django-staticfiles seem to already have it own context_processors that defined STATIC_URL together with urlpatterns to be used for serving static content during development. Use this instead of custom code.

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    'staticfiles.context_processors.static_url',
)