Django : Page Not Found when trying to access static files

Question

I know there are already several threads on the topic. I've been through most of them (especially all the troubleshooting listed in this one) but I can't figure out my issue.

I am trying to use a Bootstrap template in my Django project, and I'd like to simply start by accessing the files in the /static/ directory. My project directory looks like this :

Whenever I try to load the page http://localhost:8000/static/theme/assets/css/style.css it returns a Page not found error (and obviously no CSS/JS content appears on my index).

Here are my settings:

• I have debug = True
• ÌNSTALLED_APPS contains django.contrib.staticfiles
• settings.py looks like this :

STATIC_URL = "/static/"
STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static/"),)

But I still can't access anything from the /static/ directory. I tried to access the CSS and JS files in base.html this way :

{% load static %}
...
<link href="{% static 'theme/assets/css/style.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">

I really have no clue how I could solve this.

Thanks in advance for your help !

Answer 1

Is base.html properly bound to a URL and to a view function via a URL dispatcher ? Can you access that file from your browser ?

If yes, try to substitute this line

STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static/"),)

with this one

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