the askbot is running with uwsgi.
while the askbot run with python manage.py runserver, it is working fine.
but while it run from uwsgi, the all pictures and js lost.
seems the pictures and js location is like: <script type="text/javascript" src="/m/default/media/jslib/timeago.js?v=1"></script>.
Configure your web server to serve static files. For example, in nginx:
location /m/ { # url should be the same as STATIC_URL in settings.py in this case it's /m/
alias /path/to/static/files/; #path should be the same as STATIC_ROOT in settings.py
autoindex off;
expires 30d;
}
Thanks! But I am still curious why "manage.py runserver" could handle the /m/ but uwsgi could not? And what is the reason to have /m/ instead of static which is the real folder name?
Because in production it's a lot more efficient to serve static files by a web-server such as nginx, rather than by a Python program. The `runserver` is meant only for the development and testing, so it should be serving from the media directories. The /m/ `STATIC_URL prefix can be replaced with anything else. Short url saves on bandwidth, even though a tiny bit.
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