collectstatic fails if CSS mentions an image file not in /static/

[philipn]

From @mivanov on August 22, 2012 20:49

Traceback after running collectstatic command:

Post-processed 'js/ckeditor/_samples/sample.css' as 'js/ckeditor/_samples/sample.73029ced5a94.css
Post-processed 'openlayers/theme/sapling/framedCloud.css' as 'openlayers/theme/sapling/framedCloud.d41d8cd98f00.css
Post-processed 'openlayers/theme/sapling/google.css' as 'openlayers/theme/sapling/google.a2e579db8ee8.css
Post-processed 'openlayers/theme/sapling/ie6-style.css' as 'openlayers/theme/sapling/ie6-style.af81e35e0dc2.css
Post-processed 'openlayers/theme/sapling/style.css' as 'openlayers/theme/sapling/style.2691bb9f9e74.css
Post-processed 'js/ckeditor/tests/qunit.css' as 'js/ckeditor/tests/qunit.37a4c1112878.css
Post-processed 'tagedit/css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.8.6.custom.css' as 'tagedit/css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.8.6.custom.8017548112e7.css
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/srv/sites/detroit/env/bin/localwiki-manage", line 8, in <module>
    load_entry_point('localwiki==0.4.0', 'console_scripts', 'localwiki-manage')()
  File "/srv/sites/detroit/env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/localwiki-0.4.0-py2.6.egg/sapling/manage.py", line 57, in main
    execute_manager(settings)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 438, in execute_manager
    utility.execute()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 379, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 191, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 220, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 351, in handle
    return self.handle_noargs(**options)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django_staticfiles-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 163, in handle_noargs
    collected = self.collect()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django_staticfiles-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 120, in collect
    for original_path, processed_path, processed in processor:
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django_staticfiles-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/staticfiles/storage.py", line 270, in post_process
    content = pattern.sub(converter, content)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django_staticfiles-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/staticfiles/storage.py", line 213, in converter
    hashed_url = self.url(unquote(joined_result), force=True)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django_staticfiles-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/staticfiles/storage.py", line 160, in url
    hashed_name = self.hashed_name(clean_name).replace('\\', '/')
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django_staticfiles-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/staticfiles/storage.py", line 123, in hashed_name
    (clean_name, self))
ValueError: The file '_files/welcome.jpg' could not be found with <staticfiles.storage.CachedStaticFilesStorage object at 0x2e161d0>.

Trying to find what's causing this...

(env)root@localwiki:/srv/sites/detroit/env/share/localwiki/themes/sapling-detroit# grep -R welcome.jpg *
assets/css/detroit.css: background-image: url(/front_page/_files/welcome.jpg);

So the most likely cause is this file.

Copied from original issue: localwiki/localwiki#326

[philipn]

jezdez/django-staticfiles#17
localwiki/localwiki#146 (unrelated i think)

[philipn]

From @mivanov on August 22, 2012 21:2

Yep #146 is unrelated, but we should use that patch.

[philipn]

From @peterldowns on February 15, 2013 8:10

I'm having a very similar problem (background-image: url(/images/frontpage/seperator.png) leads to an error saying that frontpage/seperator.png can't be found -- somehow dropping the /images/ prefix) in one of my own django projects. @mivanov, did you ever manage to resolve this issue?