[patch] view for serving static files

[volsung@…]

It would be nice to be able to serve static files from disk while using the test django server. This can be done with a view and urlpattern.

I've hacked up an implementation at: ​http://django.pastebin.com/347411
To use it, put that in your view directory (say in static.py), then add

  DOCUMENT_ROOT = '/your/local/document/root/dir'

to your settings file, and a pattern:

  (r'^(?P<path>.*)$', 'foo.apps.foo.views.static.serve')

at the end of your urlpatterns list. This will pick up all the URLs that all the previous patterns couldn't match and try to find them under DOCUMENT_ROOT.

Is there any interest in adding this view to the other views django already provides?

[volsung@…]

static file view

[Stan Seibert <volsung@…>]

Static file view in the form of a patch against django trunk

[Stan Seibert <volsung@…>]

Resubmitted static file view in the form of a patch. DOCUMENT_ROOT is still the same, but now your URL handler would look something like:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    # Other patterns here
    (r'^(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve')  # This should be last
)

[John Madson <jmadson@…>]

This is great. Please commit it, Djangods!

[volsung@…]

This is seems to be a really common request on IRC. Probably more than just low priority.

[Jacob]

(In [683]) Fixed #428 -- added a "static pages" view. Note that this view should only be used for testing!

[Esaj]

There's a typo in the URL pattern example (an extraneous `)')

Index: django/views/static.py
===================================================================
--- django/views/static.py      (revision 699)
+++ django/views/static.py      (working copy)
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@

     To use, put a URL pattern like::

-        (r'^(?P<path>).*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root' : '/path/to/my/files/'})
+        (r'^(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root' : '/path/to/my/files/'})

     in your URL conf; you must provide the ``document_root`` param.  You may
     also set ``show_indexes`` to ``True`` if you'd like to serve a basic index