899767 - easy way to serve static files locally in DEBUG=False mode

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(support.mozilla.org :: Code Quality, task)

Description

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

Django does different things when DEBUG=True and when DEBUG=False. Amongst other things, the tests run with DEBUG=False, but we typically develop when DEBUG=True.

It comes up periodically when we need to simulate a server environment and have DEBUG=False, but it's important that static files are served with everything else which usually means with "./manage.py runserver".

I'd like a mode that we can enable/disable that sets up whatever needs to be set up staticfiles-wise so that doing "./manage.py runserver" with DEBUG=False lets us simulate a server environment. Maybe do it like we do read_only_mode()?

Comment 1

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

Perhaps serve_it_like_a_boss()?

Comment 2

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

Tossing this in the backlog. It sure would be super nice.

Comment 3

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

I heard some clamoring about a thing library called "whitenoise". That might help.

Regardless, I opened this bug, but it hasn't gotten any love and it's a minor issue, so I'm closing it out now.