[Answered ]-Django where to put static files

You let your main webserver (the one you’re running django on) deal with the static files. In most cases this means that you simly server the files through apache (or lighttpd or cherrypy or whatever). Django is only ment for the rendering of dynamic things and thus should not be used for serving static files.

If you’re running from a development server (which I can’t recommend), this tutorial will help you through setting it up: Serving static files