Document restart required after adding statics directory: tutorial part 06

[anonymous]

The intro tutorial on the Polls app:

​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/intro/tutorial06/#customize-your-app-s-look-and-feel

describes setting up a static folder. It is completely correct, but doesn't mention that a restart of the server is required to pick up the newly created statics folder.

Where it says:

That’s all you need to do for development. Reload ​http://localhost:8000/polls/ and you should see that the poll links are green (Django style!) which means that your stylesheet was properly loaded.

It would be clearer to say:

That’s all you need to do for development. Restart the server with python manage.py runserver, then reload ​http://localhost:8000/polls/ and you should see that the poll links are green (Django style!) which means that your stylesheet was properly loaded.

[Tim Graham]

It works for me without a server restart.

[Bob Kline]

This might be working without the restart for some developers, but I spent quite a while trying to figure out what was going on, until I stumbled across this ticket. How hard would it be for the tutorial to mention that you might need to restart the server in order for the style changes to be picked up?

[Tim Graham]

I think we would first like to understand the root cause of why it works sometimes but not others, if that's the case.

[Tim Graham]

This was reported again in #29909. After retesting, I can't see why it would work without restarting the server, however, there's nothing saying to start the server earlier. Nonetheless, I'll submit a clarification.

[Tim Graham]

​PR

[GitHub <noreply@…>]

In d8f8353:

Fixed #22390 -- Doc'd possible server restart required in tutorial 6.

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In 1df26757:

[2.1.x] Fixed #22390 -- Doc'd possible server restart required in tutorial 6.

Backport of d8f83531c2dc40a7add4afc5b917c1e5a7452be8 from master.