Problem applying css in Django with static-files app

Question

I am using Django and I can't get my style.css to work. Every time I load the page I am working on, no css is applied. Also I get this in the terminal "GET /css/style.css HTTP/1.1" 404 2239

My style.css is located in .../Templates/site_media/static/css

I also have djago.contrib.staticfiles in my INSTALLED_APPS

I have this in my settings.py

STATIC_URL = '/static/'


STATICFILES_DIRS = "/Templates/site_media/",

This is what I have in my template to load the css

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

Answer 1

My style.css is located in .../Templates/site_media/static/css

doesnt match

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

you would need to have your link as:

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

Edit Use absolute paths for STATICFILES_DIRS (thx Yuji):

settings.py:

import os
SITE_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = ((os.path.join(SITE_ROOT,'Templates/site-media'),)

make sure that your:

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS has 'django.core.context_processors.static',