Static Files With Django 1.6

Question

I have spent all day and nothing works. I have seen at least 20 posts here about the same topic and they are different with different suggestions and nothing works for me. Running Django 1.6 with Python 2.7.+ I'm trying to load the css for the polls app from the django tutorial.

project layout

Project
   |-polls
       |-static
           |-polls
                style.css
   |static

here is the settings.py

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = '/home/bri6ko/DjangoProjects/django1.6/PoolsDjangoProject/static'

template code

{% load staticfiles %}
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'polls/style.css' %}">

urls.py

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

polls/urls.py

urlpatterns = patterns(....,url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',                                        {'document_root': '/home/bri6ko/DjangoProjects/django1.6/PoolsDjangoProject/'}),)

After running: python manage.py collectstatic, everything is collected and static folder which is on root gets populated accordingly with the admin and polls folders and files.

I start the server: python manage.py runserver everything works fine except the css is not loaded

this is what i get from the Chrome console when i inspect the html

....
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/static/polls/style.css">
....

which looks fine but gives the following output

[16/Nov/2013 00:44:41] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 404 2141
[16/Nov/2013 00:44:45] "GET /polls/ HTTP/1.1" 200 820
[16/Nov/2013 00:44:45] "GET /static/polls/style.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1649

Any help would be appreciated. I followed everything step by step. I don't know what to do anymore

UPDATE

DEBUG=True

full urls.py

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
from django.contrib import admin
from PoolsDjangoProject import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static

admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
# Examples:
# url(r'^$', 'PoolsDjangoProject.views.home', name='home'),
# url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls')),
url(r'^polls/', include('polls.urls', namespace='polls')),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
) + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)

full polls/urls.py

from django.conf.urls import patterns, url import views

urlpatterns = patterns('',
                   url(r'^$', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
                   url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)/$', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
                   url(r'^(?P<pk>\d+)/results/$',     views.ResultsView.as_view(),name='results'),
                   url(r'^(?P<poll_id>\d+)/vote/$', 'polls.views.vote', name='votes'),
                   url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
                                    {'document_root':       '/home/bri6ko/DjangoProjects/django1.6/PoolsDjangoProject/'}),
)

And when i try to access

http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/polls/style.css

I get

Page not found (404)
'polls/style.css' could not be found

Answer 1

I found it necessary to restart the running server after following the steps in

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/intro/tutorial06/#customize-your-app-s-look-and-feel

in order to pick up the newly created static directory. That step isn't listed in the tutorial. I have opened a ticket requesting its addition.

I realise this answer is not likely to help your specific case but this question comes up prominently in Google when searching for problems with adding a static directory to the example Polls app.