Django - Static file not found

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I ve seen several posts for this issue but didn t found my solution   I m trying to serve static files within my Django 1 3 development environment   Here are my settings      STATIC ROOT     home glide Documents django cbox static   STATIC URL     static   STATICFILES DIRS         static            My urls py  urlpatterns   patterns           url r  static   P lt path gt         django views static serve         document root   settings STATIC ROOT                My  home glide Documents django cbox static  directory is like  css   main css javascript image   I get a 404 error when trying to access http   127 0 0 1 8000 static css main css   Do I have to specify patterns for css  javascript and images individually

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If you ve have added the django-storages module  to support uploading files to S3 in your django app for instance   and if like me you did not read correctly the documentation of this module  just remove this line from your settings py   STATICFILES STORAGE    storages backends s3boto3 S3Boto3Storage    Otherwise it will cause your static assets to be looked NOT on your local machine but remotely in the S3 bucket  including admin panel CSS  and thus effectively breaking admin panel CSS

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There could be only two things in settings py which causes problems for you   1  STATIC URL     static    2    STATICFILES DIRS         os path join BASE DIR   static        and your static files should lie under static directory which is in same directory as project s settings file     Even then if your static files are not loading then reason is   you might have kept  DEBUG   False   change it to True  strictly for development only   In production just change STATICFILES DIRS to whatever path where static files resides

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In your cmd type command python manage py findstatic --verbosity 2 static It will give the directory in which Django is looking for static files If you have created a virtual environment then there will be a static folder inside this virtual environment name folder  VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT NAME Lib site-packages django contrib admin static  On running the above  findstatic  command if Django shows you this path then just paste all your static files in this static directory  In your html file use JINJA syntax for href and check for other inline css  If still there is an image src or url after giving JINJA syntax then prepend it with   static   This worked for me

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document root   settings STATIC ROOT  needs to be   document root   settings STATIC ROOT   or you ll get an error like dictionary update sequence element  0 has length 6  2 is required

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I found that I moved my DEBUG setting in my local settings to be overwritten by a default False value  Essentially look to make sure the DEBUG setting is actually false if you are developing with DEBUG and runserver

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Another error can be not having your app listed in the INSTALLED APPS listing like   INSTALLED APPS                    your app       Without having it in  you can face problems like not detecting your static files  basically all the files involving your app  Even though it can be correct as suggested in the correct answer by using   STATICFILES DIRS    adding path of your app    Can be one of the errors and should be reviewed if getting this error

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Serving static files can be achieved in several ways  here are my notes to self    add a static my app  directory to my app  see the note about namespacing below  define a new top level directory and add that to STATICFILES DIRS in settings py  note that The STATICFILES DIRS setting should not contain the STATIC ROOT setting    I prefer the first way  and a setup that s close to the way defined in the documentation  so in order to serve the file admin-custom css to override a couple of admin styles  I have a setup like so      -- my app          -- static                 -- my app                       -- admin-custom css         -- settings py         -- urls py         -- wsgi py  -- static   -- templates          -- admin                -- base html  -- manage py     settings py STATIC ROOT   os path join BASE DIR   static   STATIC URL     static     This is then used in the template like so      templates admin base html    extends  admin base html        load static        block extrahead         lt link rel  stylesheet  href     static  my app admin-custom css      gt     endblock         During development  if you use django contrib staticfiles  ed  installed by default   this will be done automatically by runserver when DEBUG is set to True            https   docs djangoproject com en 1 10 howto static-files    When deploying  I run collectstatic and serve static files with nginx     The docs which cleared up all the confusion for me      STATIC ROOT      The absolute path to the directory where collectstatic will collect static files for deployment          it is not a place to store your static files permanently  You should do that in directories that will be found by staticfiles   s finders  which by default  are  static   app sub-directories and any directories you include in STATICFILES DIRS        https   docs djangoproject com en 1 10 ref settings  static-root        Static file namespacing      Now we might be able to get away with putting our static files directly in my app static   rather than creating another my app subdirectory   but it would actually be a bad idea  Django will use the first static file it finds whose name matches  and if you had a static file with the same name in a different application  Django would be unable to distinguish between them  We need to be able to point Django at the right one  and the easiest way to ensure this is by namespacing them  That is  by putting those static files inside another directory named for the application itself       https   docs djangoproject com en 1 10 howto static-files         STATICFILES DIRS      Your project will probably also have static assets that aren   t tied to a particular app  In addition to using a static  directory inside your apps  you can define a list of directories  STATICFILES DIRS  in your settings file where Django will also look for static files       https   docs djangoproject com en 1 10 howto static-files

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STATICFILES DIRS  is used in development and STATIC ROOT in production   STATICFILES DIRS  and STATIC ROOT should not have same folder name   If you need to use the exact same static folder in development and production  try this method  include this in  settings py  import socket  HOSTNAME   socket gethostname      if hostname same as production url name use STATIC ROOT  if HOSTNAME     www example com       STATIC ROOT   os path join BASE DIR   static     else      STATICFILES DIRS                 os path join BASE DIR   static

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There could be following things in  your settings py  TEMPLATES         BACKEND    django template backends django DjangoTemplates    DIRS     quot templates quot     APP DIRS   True   OPTIONS            some options here               OR STATIC URL     static   OR STATICFILES DIRS     os path join BASE DIR   quot static quot

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I solve this problem by adding my project name in INSTALLED APPS

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If your static URL is correct but still      Not found   static css main css   Perhaps your WSGI problem     Config WSGI serves both development env and production env                            project project wsgi py                            import os from django conf import settings from django contrib staticfiles handlers import StaticFilesHandler from django core wsgi import get wsgi application  os environ setdefault  DJANGO SETTINGS MODULE    project settings   if settings DEBUG      application   StaticFilesHandler get wsgi application    else      application   get wsgi application

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TEMPLATE DIR os path join BASE DIR  templates   STATIC DIR os path join BASE DIR  static    STATICFILES DIRS  STATIC DIR

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You can remove the STATIC ROOT line Or you can create another static folder in different directory  For suppose the directory is  project static Now update        STATICFILES DIRS             os path join BASE DIR   project static              STATIC ROOT   os path join BASE DIR   static     Whatever you do the main point is STATICFILES DIRS and STATIC ROOT should not contain same directory    I know it s been a long time but hope the new buddies can get help from it

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I confused STATIC ROOT and STATICFILES DIRS  Actually I was not really understanding the utility of STATIC ROOT  I thought that it was the directory on which I have to put my common files  This directory is used for the production  this is the directory on which static files will be put  collected  by collectstatic   STATICFILES DIRS is the one that I need   Since I m in a development environment  the solution for me is to not use STATIC ROOT  or to specify another path  and set my common files directory in STATICFILES DIRS    STATIC ROOT    os path join SITE ROOT   static files     import os SITE ROOT   os path dirname os path realpath   file     STATICFILES DIRS       os path join SITE ROOT   static         Also don t forget to from django conf import settings

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