I am running a small test project with Django 1.3, Ubuntu 11.10, gunicorn and Nginx, everything in a virtualenv, and now I'm running collectstatic to get my static files into the directory that Nginx serves from.
For simplicity's sake let's say my static directory is something like /home/user/static and my project is at /home/user/project
When I go to /home/user/project I run:
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
and it correctly copies static files from all the apps I have installed. Unfortunately this also copies the files from Django's admin and I would like to skip that one.
I checked the documentation for collecstatic and there´s an -i (--ignore) parameter that takes a glob-style parameter so I tried different variations of the command, as I´m not sure if the ignore pattern refers to my /home/user/static or to the original app directory.
Here some examples that didn´t work:
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput -i /home/user/static/admin
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput -i /home/user/static/admin/*
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput -i /home/user/static/a*
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput -i /home/alexis/.virtualenvs/django13/*
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput -i /home/user/.virtualenvs/django13/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin*
I found that if I create a symbolic link from /home/user/static/admin to /home/user/.virtualenvs/django13/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media collectstatic will notice and skip copying those files again but anyway, I´d like to make the --ignore option work as it should.
What am I missing?
Thanks for the help!