From 56b325ca1090b3d3cef30a79a1d2d65f89c5dc19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Stephan <brian.stephan@tdstelecom.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 08:28:09 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] use django whitenoise for static files

---
 .gitignore                        | 1 +
 dr_botzo/settings.py              | 4 ++++
 pyproject.toml                    | 2 +-
 requirements/requirements-dev.txt | 2 ++
 requirements/requirements.txt     | 2 ++
 5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c2e1817..127f7a5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ tags/
 *.egg-info/
 .tox/
 .coverage
+staticfiles/
 dr.botzo.data
 dr.botzo.cfg
 localsettings.py
diff --git a/dr_botzo/settings.py b/dr_botzo/settings.py
index 426a5f4..0bbbcda 100644
--- a/dr_botzo/settings.py
+++ b/dr_botzo/settings.py
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
+    'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
@@ -165,6 +166,9 @@ BOOTSTRAP3 = {
     'javascript_in_head': True,
 }
 
+# whitenoise
+STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
+
 ###############
 # web options #
 ###############
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ed3f8ce..6eb8ec6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ authors = [
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.10,<3.12"
 dependencies = ["Django<5.1", "django-bootstrap3", "django-extensions", "djangorestframework", "irc<20.5.0", "numexpr",
-                "parsedatetime", "ply", "python-dateutil", "python-mpd2", "pytz", "requests", "zalgo-text"]
+                "parsedatetime", "ply", "python-dateutil", "python-mpd2", "pytz", "requests", "whitenoise", "zalgo-text"]
 dynamic = ["version"]
 classifiers = [
 	"Framework :: Django",
diff --git a/requirements/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements/requirements-dev.txt
index ede22fd..b51af51 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -283,6 +283,8 @@ virtualenv==20.27.1
     # via tox
 wheel==0.44.0
     # via pip-tools
+whitenoise==6.11.0
+    # via dr.botzo (pyproject.toml)
 zalgo-text==0.6
     # via dr.botzo (pyproject.toml)
 
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index d921533..f6497c8 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -83,5 +83,7 @@ tempora==5.7.0
     #   jaraco-logging
 urllib3==2.2.3
     # via requests
+whitenoise==6.11.0
+    # via dr.botzo (pyproject.toml)
 zalgo-text==0.6
     # via dr.botzo (pyproject.toml)