Question

Not sure what I’m doing wrong, but I can’t get this to work. I’m using Django 1.3 and Python 2.7.

My project structure looks like this:

project
   static
   templates
   settings.py
   apps
      ...

In my settings.py file I have

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static'))
STATIC_URL = '/static'

my urls.py file:

from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'^grappelli/', include('grappelli.urls')),
) 
urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

In my templates, I’m using {{ STATIC_URL }} which creates the correct path to my files, like this: /static/js/libs/modernizr-2.0.6.min.js.

None of my static files load and I’ve double checked the directory structure is correct. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills, so any advice is appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

You should add the complete path to the dir where you place your static files in STATICFILES_DIRS in settings.py, like this:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
                '/path/to/static',
)