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ryan
ryan

Reputation: 645

Cannot locate CSS static files for Django page

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I'm currently trying to get the styles to load for my index page and am not having any luck. The above illustrates my current file structure. DEBUG = True and I have run collectstatic to no avail. I'm assuming it's all a basic directory mapping issue, but can't seem to figure it out. Thanks in advance.

settings

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')

URLS

from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin
from homepage.views import main_page
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static

urlpatterns = [

    url(r'^$', main_page, name = 'home'),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),

] + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)

html snippet

{% load staticfiles %}
<link href="{% static 'css/style.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="{% static 'css/font-awesome.min.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">
<link href="{% static 'css/bootstrap.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">

ERROR

'static/css/bootstrap.css' could not be found

Upvotes: 0

Views: 63

Answers (1)

rnevius
rnevius

Reputation: 27112

You're confusing a couple of staticfiles topics.

First, you need to define STATICFILES_DIRS in your settings.py. This needs to be different than your STATIC_ROOT (which doesn't need to be set in development with DEBUG = True):

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

If you want to define STATICFILES_ROOT, this needs to be different than the above. The STATICFILES_ROOT is the location where collectstatic will "collect" static files from your STATICFILES_DIRS, for production.

Upvotes: 2

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