What is the absolute path of BASE DIR?

Question

Django newbie here. I have trouble understanding the meaning of:

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)) 

and

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR), 'static') STATICFILES_DIRS = (     os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR), "static", "static"), ) 

What's happening here?

I take it the "file" is the settings.py file we are in (?), so the BASE_Dir is two folders up from that...? i.e. the one with manage.py in it?

So the STATIC_ROOT, will be one? or two? directories up from the BASE_DIR. Will the STATIC_ROOT FOLDER be made for me? Or do I have to make one called "static"?

└── MY_PROJECT     ├── BASE_DIR     │   ├── MY_APP     │   │   └── settings.py     │   └── manage.py     └── static 

Is the above right for this example? Then what the heck / where the heck will the STATIC_FILES_DIRS be?

Answer 1

BASE_DIR is your Django project directory. The same directory where manage.py is located.