Django 1.4 static files problems and don't render at other urls of my project

Question

Here are my settings:

STATIC_ROOT = "/home/tony/Documents/mysite/mysite/"

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
"/home/tony/Documents/mysite/mysite/static/",
)

And here I refer my stylesheet(This gives me an error):

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}/css/reset.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}/css/style.css" />

And the error in the log:

[06/Apr/2012 13:36:09] "GET /css/reset.css HTTP/1.1" 404 2193
[06/Apr/2012 13:36:09] "GET /css/style.css HTTP/1.1" 404 2193

How I thought I fixed it:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}static/css/reset.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}static/css/style.css" />    

And it worked until I made another view-:

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext

def test(request):
    return render_to_response('test.html')

And in the template I added the {% extends 'base/base.html' %} and what do I get in the logs? this:

[06/Apr/2012 13:46:55] "GET /test/ HTTP/1.1" 200 964
[06/Apr/2012 13:46:55] "GET /test/static/css/style.css HTTP/1.1" 404 2229
[06/Apr/2012 13:46:55] "GET /test/static/css/reset.css HTTP/1.1" 404 2229

Notice the /test/? It doesn't load the css.
Any idea why?(I never had this problem with django1.3)

Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

First of all, the following does not fix your problem because STATIC_URL should contain /static/, you don't want to write it yourself anywhere:

"{{ STATIC_URL }}static/css/reset.css"

Now, if you have {{ STATIC_URL }} in your template but the /static/ does not show up in the templates then I think you're missing the template context processor for STATIC_URL.

Add 'django.core.context_processors.static' to your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS setting. For example, like this:

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
   'django.core.context_processors.static',
)

If TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS is in your settings file already then you should add it to what's already there.

Also, note that STATIC_URL ends in a slash so you'll need to remove the first slash after {{ STATIC_URL }} here:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}/css/reset.css" />

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Lastly, your STATIC_ROOT is most likely not what you intended. It should be:

"/home/tony/Documents/mysite/mysite/static/"

This is the location where the static files will be placed when you run the collectstatic command. See Managing static files in the Django documentation.

Answer 2

You're not using RequestContext to render your template, so the context processors aren't being run and therefore STATIC_URL is empty.