Django Static files 404

Question

I can't get my static files to come up. I've tried various settings and directory configurations and so on, but they just turn up as 404s. I have debug_toolbar installed so know that STATIC_URL is reaching my request context.

Directory structure showing /static (I have also placed the directory inside of the meals app folder, and users, just to try it out.

/mealmate     /mealmate     /meals     /static         /css              /bootstrap.min.css     /templates     /users 

Settings.py (a few important settings though I've experimented with a variety of other ones):

MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'media/')  STATIC_URL = '/static/'  INSTALLED_APPS = (     'django.contrib.auth',     'django.contrib.contenttypes',     'django.contrib.sessions',     'django.contrib.sites',     'django.contrib.messages',     'django.contrib.staticfiles', )  WSGI_APPLICATION = 'mealmate.wsgi.application' 

In base.html rendered

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/bootstrap.min.css"> 

Any ideas? Thanks

Answer 1

This is the working solution for static/media/template access in django for windows,

settings.py

import os.path  STATIC_ROOT = ''  STATIC_URL = '/static/'  STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join('static'), ) 

Answer 2

For me this turned out to be caused by setting debug to false in settings.py. A workaround is to pass the --insecure switch to runserver, but the real solution is to use a proper web server to serve the static files. See the answers to this question for more details.