How to server favicon.ico with Django and Whitenoise

Question

I use whitenoise for static files and it works fine.

But how can I serve the /favicon.ico file?

There is a setting called WHITENOISE_ROOT, but I don't understand how to use it.

I would like to keep my nginx config simple and serve all files via gunicorn

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65927187/how-to-server-favicon-ico-with-django-and-whitenoise

Answer 1

If you want those files to be managed by collectstatic

Let's assume after running collectstatic, your favicon.ico file ends up being copied in a root subdirectory, located in your STATIC_ROOT directory.

Then, with:

WHITENOISE_ROOT = os.path.join(STATIC_ROOT, 'root')

Whitenoise will serve all files in STATIC_ROOT/root/ at the root of your application.

In your case, STATIC_ROOT/root/favicon.ico will be served at /favicon.ico.

If you don't want those files to be managed by collectstatic

You can have a root_staticfiles folder in your BASE_DIR which simply contains the static files you want to serve at /.

WHITENOISE_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'root_staticfiles')

In this case, Whitenoise will serve all files in BASE_DIR/root_staticfiles/ at the root of your application.