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 had same path in STATICFILES_DIRS AND STATIC_ROOT, I ran into the same issue and below was the exception -

ImproperlyConfigured: The STATICFILES_DIRS setting should not contain the STATIC_ROOT setting

For local you don't need STATICFILES_DIRS, as anyway you don't need to run collectstatic. Once you comment it, it should work fine.

Answer 2

Add this "django.core.context_processors.static", context processor in your settings.py

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
"django.core.context_processors.static",

)