Opened 6 years ago

Closed 6 years ago

#30308 closed Uncategorized (wontfix)

Clarify in documentation that runserver is overridden for django.contrib.staticfiles

Reported by: David Beitey Owned by: nobody
Component: Documentation Version: 2.2
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

In the main static files documentation, the serving process is generally explained that runserver will automatically serve files if DEBUG is set to true. This isn't quite the full story because it's not the _original_ runserver that is being used, and rather it's the one from django.contrib.staticfiles. This gets explained if you dig deeper, but it isn't clear what's happening before getting this deep.

PR at https://github.com/django/django/pull/11121

This PR makes a clarification to the wording of this section in the docs to explain how runserver is working its magic, and that if you have a custom runserver command (like I did), you need a special strategy.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Carlton Gibson, 6 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

Closing as per comment on PR. (Roughly: too much of an edge-case to be worth the complication, and advising the use of collectstatic in development not the best way to go.)

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