Question

So I’ve been hitting my head against the wall on this for the last hour and can’t seem to figure out why none of the static media (CSS, Images, JS etc) when my template is rendered.
Could someone please help me find out why adjustments I need to make? Below are snippets from Settings.py, Index.html and stylesheet please let me know if more is needed.

My static files are located in the following directory:
/djangoproject/website/static

Settings.py    -  Located /djangoproject/djangoprojectname/
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT,
"/static/"))

STATIC_URL = '../website/static/'

Here’s a snippet from my index.html that is supposed to be calling the css style sheet with {{ STATIC_URL }}

Index.html  - Location /djangoproject/website/templates/  
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}css/style.css">

Location of CSS StyleSheet

style.css - Location /djangoproject/website/static/css/

Answer 1

From the Django docs:

If {{ STATIC_URL }} isn’t working in your template, you’re probably
not using RequestContext when rendering the template.

As a brief refresher, context processors add variables into the
contexts of every template. However, context processors require that
you use RequestContext when rendering templates. This happens
automatically if you’re using a generic view, but in views written by
hand you’ll need to explicitly use RequestContext To see how that
works, and to read more details, check out Subclassing Context:RequestContext.