Unable to serve static files like css, js in django python

Question

I am very new to django, and gone through tutorial for many days , i have started building a small website using django and trying to serve a css f

Answer 1

Your problem is related to this line:

return render_to_response("home_page.html")

Django's template engine requires two things to properly render a template.

1. The template name
2. A context variable

The context variable is a key/value dictionary listing all of the variables available to the template.

The render_to_response shortcut actually accepts two different context variable parameters.

You're missing both.

Without these variables, the template doesn't have ANY variables available to it. So your {{ STATIC_URL }} template variable is probably blank.

To correct, try this:

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext

def home_page(request):
    return render_to_response("home_page.html", {}, context_instance=RequestContext(request))