TemplateSyntaxError 'staticfiles' is not a valid tag library'
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You probably are running django 1.3 right!?
So, notice the difference between django dev(1.4) and django 1.3:
- 1.3 : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/howto/static-files/#with-a-template-tag
- dev : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/#with-a-template-tag
So if you wanna use "{% load staticfiles %}" u must be using django dev(1.4+)
This is how to use in django 1.3 :
{% load static %}
<img src="{% get_static_prefix %}images/hi.jpg" />
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Naftuli Kay
Updated on June 07, 2022Comments
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Naftuli Kay almost 2 years
I'm having a really strange issue trying to get the
staticfiles
taglib working in my application. I'm essentially getting the following error:'staticfiles' is not a valid tag library: Template library staticfiles not found, tried django.templatetags.staticfiles,django.contrib.admin.templatetags.staticfiles
Here's my template which is throwing this error:
{% load staticfiles %} <html> <head> {% block stylesheets %} <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "styles/bootstrap-1.2.0.min.css" %}"> {% endblock %} <title>{% block title %}Tzibor{% endblock %}</title> </head> <body> <h1>It Works!</h1> {% block scripts %} <script type="text/javascript" src="{% static "scripts/jquery-1.6.2.min.js" %}"></script> {% endblock %} </body> </html>
Here's my
settings.py
:DEBUG = True TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG ADMINS = ( ) MANAGERS = ADMINS DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', 'NAME': '/tmp/project.db', 'USER': '', 'PASSWORD': '', 'HOST': '', 'PORT': '', } } TIME_ZONE = 'UTC' LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us' SITE_ID = 1 USE_I18N = True USE_L10N = True MEDIA_ROOT = '' # abs fs path to upload dir MEDIA_URL = '' STATIC_URL = '/static/' ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/' SECRET_KEY = '4qo&twl!=ty!n%1@h2nidz^ie@$^uu@*pz)(ol%ise0&g6*@&_' #TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ( # "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth", # "django.core.context_processors.debug", # "django.core.context_processors.i18n", # "django.core.context_processors.media", # "django.core.context_processors.static", # "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages", #) TEMPLATE_LOADERS = ( 'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader', 'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader', 'django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader', ) TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( ) MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware', ) ROOT_URLCONF = 'project.urls' INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.admindocs', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'project.web', 'south', )
Essentially, I followed the guide available in Django's documentation on how to set up the static serving application, and got this error. Can anyone see what the issue is? Am I missing something?
Full stacktrace here.