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I have a very simple question which I was not able to find an answer. Using Django staticfiles app, I call the statics collect routine by typing this command line : python manage.py collectstatic.

My problem is that I've several applications serving statics + a media directory containing user-uploaded files. Django copies all the files to the static directory, including media files!

I just would like Django to not copy user-uploaded files to the static directory when I call python manage.py collectstatic. Does anyone have an idea? Tried --ignore option but without success...

Thank you in advance.

user650108
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    add statisfiles settings here, please – histrio Feb 29 '12 at 11:44
  • Is moving user uploaded media to MEDIA_ROOT (where they belong) an option? – Anton Strogonoff Feb 29 '12 at 11:45
  • In fact, files are uploaded by user to MEDIA_ROOT. Everything is OK and I can use them in my templates. The problem is that collectstatics copies `MEDIA_ROOT/*` to `STATIC_ROOT`. So I'm affraid it will end to overload my server by duplicating every single user-uploaded file... – user650108 Feb 29 '12 at 12:00
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    Your MEDIA_ROOT should not be in your STATIC_ROOT. – jpic Feb 29 '12 at 12:08
  • it seems to be incorrect staticfiles settings – histrio Feb 29 '12 at 12:09
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    I agree with @jpic. `MEDIA_ROOT` is *not* collected into static by default. You'd have to tell Django to do that. Have you perhaps added the same directory to `STATICFILES_DIRS`? – Chris Pratt Feb 29 '12 at 15:24

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That was a problem of django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder, try removing that from STATICFILES_FINDERS.

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So what exactly doesn't work if you use --ignore?

Though the real solution is not to mix user generated content and static files.

If you keep both types separated you can easily put your static files under version control and don't have to deal with excludes on this front as well. And in fact the separation from media (user generated) and static files is the rationale behind staticfiles:

In previous versions of Django, it was common to place static assets in MEDIA_ROOT along with user-uploaded files, and serve them both at MEDIA_URL. Part of the purpose of introducing the staticfiles app is to make it easier to keep static files separate from user-uploaded files.

The docs on this topic are really comprehensive: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/

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