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Meister96Fels
Meister96Fels

Reputation: 506

Django bootstrap files not found

I have set up Django with bootstrap following some tutorials but even when I am doing the same as in the tutorials Django doesn't find the static files.

My Project has the following structure:

webshop
    shop
        migrations
        templates
        ...
    static
        css
            bootstrap.min.css
        ...
    webshop
        ...
    db.sqlite3
    manage.py

In the data settings.py I have added 

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

And in the Index.html I load the static files with following code:

<head>
        <title>Webshop</title>
        {% load staticfiles %}
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'css/bootstrap.min.css' %}" type="text/css"/>
</head>

But Django can't find the data bootstrap.min.css.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4138

Answers (2)

Weder Ribas
Weder Ribas

Reputation: 359

As per Django documentation you should specify the folder when the static file is not tied to a specific app:

STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
    '/var/www/static/',
]

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/static-files/

In your case it could be:

STATIC_URL = '/static'/
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
    '/path/to/webshop/static',
]

Also please pay attention in the @kiran.koduru comment above regarding {% load static %}. This is the right way to load static files in Django templates.

Upvotes: 2

Andres Mejia
Andres Mejia

Reputation: 90

in your HTML code add 

{% load static %}

and your setting.py add

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

Upvotes: 3

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