Django 1.3 static files placed in application dirs

Question

I\'m using Django 1.3 and the static files in app is confusing. What I was doing: 1) Set the

STATIC_ROOT = as path to directory \'static\' in my project
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Answer 1

The idea behind that is that you ship all your apps with their own static files under app/static.

Once you deploy an app in a project, running python manage.py collectstatic will copy all static files found thanks to STATICFILES_FINDERS setting (which contains a finder looking for a static dir in each installed app by default) within your STATIC_ROOT directory then will be served via STATIC_URL

The development server handles that STATIC_URL pattern when in DEBUG mode but this is an interesting read : Serving static files in production