Question

I’m facing quite a strange issue with Django, my STATIC_URL is /static/ and I’ve got an app installed using pip as -e git+git://github.com/foo/bar.git#egg=bar which loads it into the virtualenv src folder.

Now, I’m trying to GET a static file related to this app as /static/bar/js/something.js and the src folder does have a bar/bar/static/bar/js/something.js file. Even if I findstatic bar/js/something.js it gives me a valid path to the file. However when I access it using the browser, I’m 301’d to /static/bar/js/something.js/ which 404s.

Why would this be happening?

Even poking around with staticfiles app, I was able to see that it recognizes my app as installed and that its static folder exists. However somehow the static files aren’t being served.

Answer 1

Make sure that you have set up the django development server to actually server the static files for you.

urls.py

from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
# ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()