Django — Can't get static CSS files to load

Question

I\'m running Django\'s development server (runserver) on my local machine (Mac OS X) and cannot get the CSS files to load.

Here are the relevant entries

Answer 1

added

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.normpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, "static"), )

and removed STATIC_ROOT from settings.py, It worked for me

Answer 2

Go to your HTML page load static by

{% load static %}

Now only mistake I've made was this

My code:

<img src="**{% static** "images/index.jpeg" %}" alt="My image">

Updated:

<img src=**"{% static 'images/index.jpeg' %}' alt="My image"**>

You get it right

Answer 3

Read this carefully: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/staticfiles/

Is django.contrib.staticfiles in your INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py?

Is DEBUG=False? If so, you need to call runserver with the --insecure parameter:

python manage.py runserver --insecure

collectstatic has no bearing on serving files via the development server. It is for collecting the static files in one location STATIC_ROOT for your web server to find them. In fact, running collectstatic with your STATIC_ROOT set to a path in STATICFILES_DIRS is a bad idea. You should double-check to make sure your CSS files even exist now.

Answer 4

DEBUG = True in my local settings did it for me.

Answer 5

Are these missing from your settings.py? I am pasting one of my project's settings:

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ("django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
"django.core.context_processors.debug",
"django.core.context_processors.i18n",
"django.core.context_processors.media",
"django.core.context_processors.static",
"django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages")

Also, this is what I have in my urls.py:

urlpatterns += patterns('', (
        r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$',
        'django.views.static.serve',
        {'document_root': 'static'}
))

Answer 6

You can just set STATIC_ROOT depending on whether you are running on your localhost or on your server. To identify that, refer to this post.

And you can rewrite you STATIC_ROOT configuration as:

import sys

if 'runserver' in sys.argv:
    STATIC_ROOT = ''
else:
    STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'