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Diesel
Diesel

Reputation: 5355

Django STATIC_URL only works without leading slash

Django 1.10 using runserver in development

For some reason, no files can be found in my static directory unless I have it listed as such:

STATIC_URL = 'static/'                                   
if not os.environ.get('DEPLOYED'):                       
    STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static/")

But all documentation and everything I have done before says it should be /static/ which makes me think I'm doing something wrong elsewhere. I am using Django's runserver

URLS:

if settings.DEBUG:
    from django.conf.urls.static import static
    from django.contrib.staticfiles import views

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

I get to the site now by typing localhost:8000/static/index.html

Upvotes: 0

Views: 605

Answers (1)

Diesel
Diesel

Reputation: 5355

It was a simple misunderstanding. I did what Eugene recommended 

findstatic index --verbosity=2

The output was 3 static folders that were not my static folder. I realized I had a basic misunderstanding of STATIC_ROOT and STATICFILES_DIRS. The path to my static folder was not in STATICFILES_DIRS in development.

I added the static folder to STATICFILES_DIRS and I was good. I removed the URL reference as suggested. I had to change STATIC_ROOT to not be that folder... which makes sense because a collectstatic will move everything to the STATIC_ROOT folder for deployment.

This post also helped

Upvotes: 1

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