Tiny_mce blank popups in Django Admin
Posted On: March 9, 2009 at 11:10 p.m.
If you are having blank pages popping up in your Django admin, or perhaps other systems as well, this may be your answer. Look at your on-page source of where the the tinymce javascript files are coming from. If you have something like:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://somedomain.com/static/js/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://somedomain.com/static/js/tiny_mce_config/tiny_mce_config.js"></script>
You will most likely be seeing blank popups. To fix this, change your site settings media URL to be a relative path. So
MEDIA_URL = 'http://somedomain.com/static/'
Becomes
MEDIA_URL = '/static/'
And now your tiny_mce installation should load properly. :)
Roger Aug. 7, 2009 at 8:04 p.m.
Thanks for the tip, Zenos but:
1) This does not solve the problem for me
2) What if I am serving static files from a different server altogether, so that relative paths don’t work?
Roger
Zenos Aug. 8, 2009 at 9:23 p.m.
Hi Roger,
1) There are quite a few other reasons that tiny_mce might throw up blank popups. I had to start with the most basic install of tiny_mce in a local development environment and then work from there to figure out this issue, but I saw several others problems around the web that would cause this problem.
2) Why would you server static files on a different server all together? This seems unwise because if one site goes down, both of your sites go down, so I don’t see this as being a common scenario for almost all websites.
Thanks, Zenos
Alfredo Di Napoli Oct. 22, 2009 at 12:47 p.m.
Dear Zenos, your method won’t work. The issue is due to the cross platform call of some procedures. You have to change the document.domain by hand in a way described here:
http://wiki.moxiecode.com/index.php/TinyMCE:Cross_domain_loading
I hope this will help people like me and save by headaches :)
Regards,
Alfredo
Serkan Yazıcıoğlu Dec. 15, 2009 at 11:58 a.m.
Thanks solved my problem ;)
apaajha July 30, 2010 at 3:07 a.m.
thanks zenos… :)