Django: how do you serve media / stylesheets and link to them within templates

Question

Variations of this question have been asked, but I\'m still unable to get my stylesheets to load correctly when my templates are rendered.

I\'m attempting to serve s

Answer 1

I just had to figure this out myself.

settings.py:

MEDIA_ROOT = 'C:/Server/Projects/project_name/static/'
MEDIA_URL = '/static/'
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/'

urls.py:

from django.conf import settings
...
if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += patterns('',
        (r'^static/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
    )

template file:

With the file located here:

"C:/Server/Projects/project_name/static/css/style.css"