Django - Installing WhiteNoise

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In this Tutorial we will use WhiteNoise, which is a Python library, built for serving static files.

To install WhiteNoise in your virtual environment, type the command below: pip install whitenoise The result should be something like this:

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To make Django aware of you wanting to run WhitNoise, you have to specify it in the MIDDLEWARE list in settings.py file:

.. MIDDLEWARE = [ 'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware', 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware', 'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware', ]..

There are one more action you have to perform before you can serve the static file from the example in the previous chapter. You have to collect all static files and put them into one specified folder. You will learn how in the next chapter.