on windows, MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT, did not quit help; I haven't understood why...
all I did then was to put: in urls something like r'^m/(?P<path>.*)$', 'media', {'document_root': 'D:\\django\\testapp\\media\\'}), and in views from django.views.static import serve media = serve and in the base template: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localhost:8000/m/myst2.css" /> awfully hardcoded, though... :(