Static files in Django 1.6

Question

I'm probably doing multiple things wrong here because I still can't get static files to work correctly in my development environment despite closely following the tutorial. I have a feeling it's because it works slightly differently in Django 1.6, and I can only find answers for previous versions.

Here's my directory structure:

mysite
├───app1
├───mysite
│   └───templates
├───resources
├───static
│   ├───css
│   ├───fonts
│   └───js
└───app2

My installed apps, to prove I have staticfiles on:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'app1',
    'app2',
)

My template and static file settings:

 # Templates
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "mysite/templates"),
)

# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

I even did this in my urls.py as suggested:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ...
) + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)

And finally, my request:

{% load staticfiles %}
<link href="{% static "css/core.css" %}" rel="stylesheet">

If I navigate directly to http://127.0.0.1/static/css/core.css, I get 'css\core.css' could not be found

Please tell me what I did wrong =[

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 23 '16 at 10:28

7

Since the static directory does not "live" in one of the apps (app1, app2 in your case), django can't find the static directory. So with your current structure you need to add the static directory to the STATICFILES_DIRS.

From the documentation:

"Your project will probably also have static assets that aren’t tied to a particular app. In addition to using a static/ directory inside your apps, you can define a list of directories (STATICFILES_DIRS) in your settings file where Django will also look for static files."

Something like this:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
)

See: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#std:setting-STATICFILES_DIRS

Hope this helps.

edited Feb 23 '16 at 10:28

Vishnu

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answered Nov 10 '13 at 15:37

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I thought this worked at first because it showed a blank page, but then I realised it was just because the server wasn't online. Still gives the same problem! – Chris Watts Nov 10 '13 at 15:46
Can you print out the contents of the STATICFILES_DIRS ? I mean somewhere after configuration. – jbub Nov 10 '13 at 15:56
('D:\\Users\\Chris\\Documents\\GitHub\\mysite\\mysite\\static',) – Chris Watts Nov 10 '13 at 16:00
Okay, now is the path correct ? Does it resolve to the static directory which you have provided in your tree structure ? Oh, and just to clarify you are running with `DEBUG = True` setting right ? – jbub Nov 10 '13 at 16:02
No =) There shouldn't have been two 'mysites' in there. Should have been just `os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),` – Chris Watts Nov 10 '13 at 16:07
I was stuck with the same problem for ages, and I think the most crucial thing to realise is that `staticfiles` doesn't look for files in `STATIC_ROOT` *at all*. `STATIC_ROOT` *only* defines the directory where everything will be copied or sym-linked to when you run `collectstatic` (even though it clearly says so in the docs, I kept on missing that fact). Hope that helps someone... – gregoltsov Feb 11 '14 at 15:03

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