Django + Pipeline to compress css: 404 for the output_filename css file

Question

Configuration of Pipeline to compress css files is this:

PIPELINE_CSS = {
                'colors': {
                          'source_filenames': (
                                               '/static/css/colors/colors.css',
                                               '/static/css/colors/layout.css'
                                               ),
                          'output_filename': '/static/css/Colors.css',
                    },
                }

but when the client tries to get

/static/css/Colors.css with

{% load compressed %}    
{% compressed_css 'colors' %}

it returns 404, Not found. If i run collectstatic no files (like /static/css/Colors.css) are generated in STATIC_ROOT.

I have installed YUI Compressor from Synaptic Repository of my Ubuntu Lucid.

EDIT1: Other of settings.py:

PIPELINE_STORAGE = 'pipeline.storage.PipelineFinderStorage'

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'pipeline.storage.PipelineStorage'

PIPELINE=True

In middleware classes:

'django.middleware.gzip.GZipMiddleware',

'pipeline.middleware.MinifyHTMLMiddleware',

STATICFILES_FINDERS = ( 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder', 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder', # 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder', )

STATICFILES_DIRS = ( "/home/my/eclipse/myproject/static/", )

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATIC_ROOT = '/home/my/eclipse/myproject/static2/'

@neoasceetic i have static files out of the source folder. So i think that if i use relative paths the files aren't found. — Giovanni Bitliner
– Giovanni Bitliner, Commented Mar 20, 2012 at 7:05
Why so? Static files must be inside your source dir by defenition, unlike media files — neoascetic
– neoascetic, Commented Mar 20, 2012 at 9:27
Because source folder, that contains python code, is private, but the js and css files are public, so i have to distinguish this fact. — Giovanni Bitliner
– Giovanni Bitliner, Commented Mar 20, 2012 at 9:33

neoascetic · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-20 09:52:35Z

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You need to use relative paths to source files since pipeline use staticfiles app to find this files.

Read more about staticfiles management in Django

edited Mar 20, 2012 at 9:52

answered Mar 20, 2012 at 9:02

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Giovanni Bitliner Over a year ago

In this way the relative path starts from? From source folder? From project root folder? If my project containes /myproject/static /myproject/src myproject/media, relative path start from /myproject folder? Or?

neoascetic Over a year ago

Paths starts from static folder. Because you can have many apps within your project and each can have static files inside it. So, if you have /myproject/static/css/main.css, relative path is css/main.css

Giovanni Bitliner Over a year ago

Now i use relative path (for example 'css/colors/colors.css' ), but collectstatic doesn't generate the compressed files in STATIC_ROOT folder

neoascetic Over a year ago

Do you specify STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'pipeline.storage.PipelineStorage' in your settings?

Giovanni Bitliner Over a year ago

No, but just now i have added this setting, but the result is bad. No files are generated in STATIC_ROOT. Howeve now i will edit the question to specify better my settings.py

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Alex · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-03 19:18:53Z

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What is the last line when you run collectstatic?

I noticed it writes to /tmp instead of STATIC_ROOT .

removing these 2 lines seems to fix it:

PIPELINE_STORAGE = 'pipeline.storage.PipelineFinderStorage'
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'pipeline.storage.PipelineStorage'

( btw, the syntax has changed to {% load pipeline %} {% stylesheet 'colors' %} )

edited Jan 3, 2015 at 19:18

answered Jan 2, 2015 at 19:19

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