Django: static file not found

Question

Running Debian on Virtual Machine guest inside Windows host. Set Bridged for adapter-type. Installed Django on the guest and using build-in runserver and built-

Answer 1

I have managed to resolve my problem with the help from ChristophBluoss and DanielRoseman. There were 2 problems:

1. I haven't ran python manage.py collectstatic.
2. The config missed crucial settings - STATIC_ROOT and STATICFILES_DIRS.

After adding those variables into settings.py file and successfully running collectstatic - everything worked fine.

P.S. One should read Django documentation more carefully. It wasn't stated clear enough for me that collectstatic is the mandatory thing.

EDIT: As DanielRoseman suggested collectstatic along with STATIC_ROOT is non-mandatory when DEBUG is set to True. I have tried to remove staticfiles and STATIC_ROOT - and it still works in my development environment. So STATICFILES_DIRS was the missing setting.