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POWhat am I doing wrong with Django static files?
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    copied!<p>I am working on writing a Django app for the first time, so bear with me if I'm a little behind on things.</p> <p>Here is an excerpt from my settings.py:</p> <pre><code>STATIC_ROOT = os.getcwd().replace('\\','/') + '/static' STATIC_URL = '/static_files/' STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.getcwd().replace('\\','/') + '/static' ) STATICFILES_FINDERS = ( 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder', 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder', ) </code></pre> <p>Note: I'm hoping that the <code>os.getcwd()...</code> line works. I am pretty sure it's not my problem, but please let me know if this is an issue. It's a placeholder for local dev purposes, so don't worry about it remaining there when I deploy.</p> <p>My first issue is that template variables don't seem to be working.</p> <p>An excerpt from my main template file:</p> <pre><code>&lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ STATIC_URL|default:'/static_files/' }}css/base.css" /&gt; </code></pre> <p>I originally just had <code>{{ STATIC_URL }}</code> in there, but that simply returned nothing, so I tried adding <code>|default:'...'</code>. This did successfully generate the given string in the resulting HTML, but still didn't work, which brings me to my second (and more important, honestly) issue.</p> <p>I can't get static files to work at all. I have tried several different methods here. I have tried putting absolute and relative paths (in various combinations) in each of the above <code>STATIC_*</code> variables, I have tried using the equivalent <code>MEDIA_URL</code> vars instead, and I have tried putting the following into my <code>urls.py</code>:</p> <pre><code>urlpatterns = ('', # ... (r'^static_files/(?P&lt;path&gt;.*)$', 'serve', { 'document_root': '/path/to/django/dir/static_files/', 'show_indexes': True } ), ) </code></pre> <p>(I grabbed the above snippet from <a href="http://www.arthurkoziel.com/2008/09/02/handling-static-files-django/" rel="nofollow">http://www.arthurkoziel.com/2008/09/02/handling-static-files-django/</a>.)</p> <p>Now I should note that I will hopefully be eventually serving up static files from a parallel Apache process once initial dev is completed, but I would still really like to know what I'm doing wrong. I haven't been able to find a decently comprehensive tutorial on static files online or on StackOverflow.</p> <p>All help is greatly appreciated.</p> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> In case it is important, I am on Windows 7 using Python 2.7.</p>
 

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