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().add_arguments(parser) parser.add_argument( '--nostatic', action="store_false", dest='use_static_handler', help='Tells Django to NOT automatically serve static files at STATIC_URL.', ) parser.add_argument( '--insecure', action="store_true", dest='insecure_serving', help='Allows serving static files even if DEBUG is False.', ) def get_handler(self, *args, **options): """ Return the static files serving handler wrapping the default handler, if static files should be served. Otherwise return the default handler. """ handler = super().get_handler(*args, **options) use_static_handler = options['use_static_handler'] insecure_serving = options['insecure_serving'] if use_static_handler and (settings.DEBUG or insecure_serving): return StaticFilesHandler(handler) return handler