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copied!<p>This makes sense now.</p> <p>The problem is this as is written in your stacktrace:</p> <pre><code>ImproperlyConfigured: The STATICFILES_DIRS setting should not contain the STATIC_ROOT setting </code></pre> <p>And per your initial configuration:</p> <pre><code>STATIC_ROOT = '/home/hussain/django/ratingsite/ratingsite/static' STATICFILES_DIRS = ( '/home/hussain/django/ratingsite/ratingsite/static',) </code></pre> <p>You will not that both of these point to <strong>exactly the same directory</strong>. This is not allowed for the reason described below.</p> <p>The <code>ImproperlyConfigured</code> error was fixed when you changed the location of one of these configurations (so they were no longer identical).</p> <p>The solution here is to:</p> <ul> <li><p>create a different <code>STATIC_ROOT</code> directory (we'd call this something like <code>/public/static/</code>) <em>do not put any files in this directory</em> this is where all of the static files are automatically collected to when your site is ready to publish.</p></li> <li><p>put the location/s of the files that you are developing in the <code>STATICFILES_DIRS</code>.</p></li> </ul> <p>When you are ready to publish your project you are able to run <code>$ ./manage.py collectstatic</code> which will go through all the apps and staticfiles directories your project uses and compile a set of all the "final" static files you need in the <code>STATIC_ROOT</code> directory ready for publication with your finished site.</p> <p>If your <code>STATIC_ROOT</code> directory was included in the directories that was gone through by <code>collectstatic</code> there would obviously be a recursive loop.</p>

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