I would like to test django-pipelines during development (i.e. on a development machine with only django runserver and no production webserver).
Normally during development Django serves static files so long as DEBUG=True, but not so if DEBUG=False. Thus without a proper webserver it seems I need to keep DEBUG=True in my settings. Usually django-pipelines does not do compression if DEBUG=True, but it can be forced supposedly by setting PIPELINE_ENABLED=True. Thus my assumption was that by setting
# local_settings.py
DEBUG = True # keep serving static files
PIPELINE_ENABLED = True # force django-pipelines to operate
I would be in a position to test django-pipelines on my dev machine.
I also added
# urls.py
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
I ran a collectstatic and the output css file was copied over to my STATIC_ROOT (myproj/static_media/static/css/out.css). However Django is not serving this css file. The HTML looks for it
<link href="/site_media/static/css/out.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen,projection">
but it 404s.
Nevertheless the minute I change PIPELINE_ENABLED=False (still DEBUG=True etc) and then manually navigate to /site_media/static/css/out.css Django serves up the file.
Why isn't this setup working and how can I test django-pipelines on a local development machine with nothing but runserver? (this is django 1.8 by the way).
