Question

My django project contains a folder STATIC in which there are it’s child folders css, images, js and swf. My web-site can not locate these files raising a 404 in the development server running on the terminal.

I have a settings_local.py file in which I have set the path such as (running on ubuntu 11.04)

STATIC_ROOT = '/home/zulaikha/dust.bin/my_project/static/'
STATIC_SERVE_PORT = 80

The sample settings-local.py file from the client suggest suggest so

# static root
STATIC_ROOT = 'C:/Program Files (x86)/XAMPP/htdocs/static'
STATIC_SERVE_PORT = 8080

I have seen some similar issues but all regard STATICFILES which I read was introduced in Django 1.3
Where am I wrong and how can I correct myself?

Answer 1

In the simplest form, this is the solution to the problem. In project urls.py include the following lines

urlpatterns += patterns('',
    url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {
        'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT,
    }),

)