from django.conf import settings from django.contrib.staticfiles.handlers import StaticFilesHandler from django.core.management.commands.runserver import \ Command as RunserverCommand class Command(RunserverCommand): help = "Starts a lightweight Web server for development and also serves static files." def add_arguments(self, parser): super(Command, self).add_arguments(parser) parser.add_argument('--nostatic', action="store_false", dest='use_static_handler', default=True, help='Tells Django to NOT automatically serve static files at STATIC_URL.') parser.add_argument('--insecure', action="store_true", dest='insecure_serving', default=False, help='Allows serving static files even if DEBUG is False.') def get_handler(self, *args, **options): """ Returns the static files serving handler wrapping the default handler, if static files should be served. Otherwise just returns the default handler. """ handler = super(Command, self).get_handler(*args, **options) use_static_handler = options.get('use_static_handler', True) insecure_serving = options.get('insecure_serving', False) if use_static_handler and (settings.DEBUG or insecure_serving): return StaticFilesHandler(handler) return handler