[Answer]-Configuring PythonAnywhere for django 1.8 static files

Embarrassing… Forgot to reload PA.

For future reference, this is how you configure PA and django 1.8 static files according to the 1.8 documentation.

Don’t forget to reload!

STATIC_ROOT and STATICFILES_DIRS should not point to the same path. STATIC_ROOT is where files are copied to be served for your production environment, usually by Apache or Nginx.

STATICFILES_DIRS are served by the static application during local development.

I typically structure my projects as such:

my_project/
    my_project/
    static_assets/  <- STATICFILES_DIRS
        images/
        css/
        less/
        js/
    static/         <- STATIC_ROOT
    templates/

A link to a css file, for example would look like:

{% static 'css/foo.css' %}

the top level directory specified in STATICFILES_DIRS is ommitted. From the looks of your sample code, it looks like your {% static %} paths are not pointing to the right location.

See the static files app docs for more information.