Django runserver not serving static files in development

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I am using Django with `runserver` for my development. When I deploy to my production server I can see all my static files, but not on my local computer. I did `collectstatic` and I have set `DEBUG = True`. I found many different opinions online, the most prominent being the `STATICFILES_DIRS`, but that does not work for me. How can I set it so that in my development environment I can see the static files, and when I upload my files to the server I do not need to make any changes for the production environment to work properly. Edit - my `urls.py` file: ``` from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url from django.conf.urls.static import static import newsflashes import settings from django.contrib import admin admin.autodiscover() urlpatterns = patterns('', url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')), url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), url(r'^', include('newsflashes.urls')), ) + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT) ``` Edit -…

Accepted Answer

I managed to fix it.

I created another directory in my project folder called static and copied my static files there.

I then added:

```
from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
import settings
if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
```

to my `urls.py`

and

```
STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),)
```

to my `settings.py`.

Then, when I deploy I execute `manage.py collectstatic` and since Apache is configured properly, everything will work!

Based on http://dlo.me/archives/2013/01/14/how-to-serve-static-files-django/

Thanks to all.

Django runserver not serving static files in development

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