Django Won't Load Staticfiles From Statifiles_dirs

My style.css is placed in appname/static/appname/. My settings.py has this code: STATIC_URL = '/static/' STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/'), ) And in m

Solution 1:

Just change one thing,

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

It will search in static folder inside your app. Also if you want to add a specific directory,

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"), '/your specific directory/',
)

From here you can directly add the particular file name, and djnago will search in that specific directory.

Solution 2:

Remove "appname" in {% static 'appname/style.css' %}, you must not place it there because python knows automatically in which application the file is, it get the application name from the request

Solution 3:

By default django picks static directory from app's directory. So, if your static directory is inside app directory there is no need to specify STATICFILES_DIRS. Now /static/ will point to files and directories in the static directory of your app. To refer your css file use

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