[Django]-Django 1.4 static files problems and don't render at other urls of my project

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You’re not using RequestContext to render your template, so the context processors aren’t being run and therefore STATIC_URL is empty.

👤Daniel Roseman

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First of all, the following does not fix your problem because STATIC_URL should contain /static/, you don’t want to write it yourself anywhere:

"{{ STATIC_URL }}static/css/reset.css"

Now, if you have {{ STATIC_URL }} in your template but the /static/ does not show up in the templates then I think you’re missing the template context processor for STATIC_URL.

Add 'django.core.context_processors.static' to your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS setting. For example, like this:

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
   'django.core.context_processors.static',
)

If TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS is in your settings file already then you should add it to what’s already there.

Also, note that STATIC_URL ends in a slash so you’ll need to remove the first slash after {{ STATIC_URL }} here:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}/css/reset.css" />

Lastly, your STATIC_ROOT is most likely not what you intended. It should be:

"/home/tony/Documents/mysite/mysite/static/"

This is the location where the static files will be placed when you run the collectstatic command. See Managing static files in the Django documentation.

👤Simeon Visser

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