Django — Can't get static CSS files to load

Question

I\'m running Django\'s development server (runserver) on my local machine (Mac OS X) and cannot get the CSS files to load.

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Answer 1

You can just set STATIC_ROOT depending on whether you are running on your localhost or on your server. To identify that, refer to this post.

And you can rewrite you STATIC_ROOT configuration as:

import sys

if 'runserver' in sys.argv:
    STATIC_ROOT = ''
else:
    STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'