Archived

This project is being archived as we should no longer be using ASSET_SERVER_URL variables in our projects - it's more straightforwardly obvious & maintainable to simply write the URL https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/ directly, and it avoids the (over)engineering associated with maintaining and including this module.

If we ever do change that URL and need to replace it in projects, it's as simple as:

find templates -name '*.html' -exec sed -i 's!/https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/!https://assets.example.com/!g' {} \;

Django asset_server_url

Provides {{ ASSET_SERVER_URL }} (the URL for an asset server) as a template context variable. Can be set through settings.py or by passing an environment variable to the app.

Setup

# settings.py
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS += [
    "assets_template_context.asset_server_url"
]

Definition

Set it in settings, e.g.:

# settings.py
ASSET_SERVER_URL = '//assets.example.com/'

Or when starting the site, e.g.:

ASSET_SERVER_URL=//assets.example.com/ python manage.py runserver

Usage

Use in templates:

# templates/index.html

<img src="{{ ASSET_SERVER_URL }}a34bc3-fish.jpg" />

Output:

<img src="//assets.example.com/a34bc3-fish.jpg"