What does "Directory indexes are not allowed here." mean in a Django error?

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Solution

Check your settings.py file for the STATIC_URL value. You want the value to be the subfolder where your static files are stored - generally `STATIC_URL = '/static/'`.

Problem

I am trying to debug this bizarre 404 error that surfaced in my Django application. ``` Page not found (404) Request Method: GET Request URL: http://78.198.124.245/ Directory indexes are not allowed here. You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page. ``` What does "Directory indexes are not allowed here." mean? What is a directory index? I Googled around, and the results I found all have to do with serving static files. However, I don't think I do that. What does this error mean?

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