Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 13 years ago

#10213 closed (fixed)

Static Files doc improvement

Reported by: preds Owned by: Kevin Kubasik
Component: Documentation Version: 1.0
Severity: Keywords: pycamp2009 kkmegapatch
Cc: Manuel Kaufmann Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

On the following page: ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/

If you follow the directions and use /media/ as the path to serve static files under you'll get the error:
"Permission denied: /var/lib/python-support/python2.5/django/contrib/admin/media/"

Which is because "/media/" is also being used for settings.ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX. A few first timers have run into this and gotten stuck so it's probably worth noting in the docs.

My suggestion would be a one liner at the end of the "How to do it" section stating "Be careful not to use the same path as your ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX (which defaults to /media/) as this will overwrite your URLconf entry.".

Change History (6)

comment:1 by Jacob, 16 years ago

milestone: → 1.1
Triage Stage: Unreviewed → Accepted

by Manuel Kaufmann, 16 years ago

Attachment: static-files.patch​ added

On-liner added

comment:2 by Manuel Kaufmann, 16 years ago

Cc: Manuel Kaufmann added
Has patch: set
Keywords: pycamp2009 added

comment:3 by Kevin Kubasik, 16 years ago

Keywords: kkmegapatch added
Owner: changed from nobody to Kevin Kubasik

comment:4 by Jacob, 16 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

Fixed by [10303].

comment:5 by Jacob, 13 years ago

milestone: 1.1

Milestone 1.1 deleted

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