whitenoise.runserver_nostatic is ignored

[engAmirEng]

What happened?

whitenoise.runserver_nostatic has no effect because of the order of INSTALLED_APPS, so the runserver command of staticfiles app is used instead of whitenoise.runserver_nostatic app

[browniebroke]

So... what? How does it impact you? Why is it a bug? Please provide more details about what's expected and what actually happened.

[engAmirEng]

@browniebroke There is a package installed and added to project as Middleware and installed app but as it is now it has no use case, Django staticfiles run server is picked up instead of whitenoise's, how is this not a bug?

[browniebroke]

how is this not a bug?

I never said it wasn't: I asked for more details as I found your original message was a bit vague.

[browniebroke]

For context, this was added in #2304

I can't remeber how to identify which command is used. From what I can see in the Whitenoise docs, we seem to be doing what's needed, as the app is isntalled before django.contrib.staticfiles:

cookiecutter-django/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/config/settings/local.py

Lines 45 to 49 in eca21f5

	# WhiteNoise
	# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# http://whitenoise.evans.io/en/latest/django.html#using-whitenoise-in-development
	INSTALLED_APPS = ["whitenoise.runserver_nostatic"] + INSTALLED_APPS # noqa: F405
	{% endif %}

I haven't tried to re-generate a project to try to reproduce. What options have you used?

PS: we have an issue template which asks which options were used, would have been nice to follow it (yes, it's actually useful).

[browniebroke]

I cannot reproduce. When I run python manage.py runserver --help I can see the following output:

usage: manage.py runserver [-h] [--ipv6] [--nothreading] [--noreload] [--nostatic] [--insecure] [--version] [--settings SETTINGS] [--pythonpath PYTHONPATH] [--no-color] [--force-color] [--skip-checks] [addrport]

Starts a lightweight web server for development and also serves static files. (Wrapped by 'whitenoise.runserver_nostatic' to always enable '--nostatic')
...

The part (Wrapped by 'whitenoise.runserver_nostatic' to always enable '--nostatic') indicates that the whitenoise command is used.

I'm closing this as I cannot reproduce. Please provide more details to reproduce the problem on a fresh project generated from this template: options used and steps demonstrating the issue, with expected vs actual behaviour.