Hello All, I am currently building a website using the Django built-in development server (python manage.py runserver). I have been using the main djangoproject tutorial for this, and it has worked very well. I have added a lot of internal CSS to the HTML templates that make up my project's views, and it works fine as such, but when I try to move the CSS into external files and link to it from the templates, it doesn't work (the views load up style-free).
What follows are my current settings. In settings.py, I have: STATIC_URL = '/static/' INSTALLED_APPS = ('django.contrib.staticfiles',) In urls.py, I have: from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns from django.contrib import admin admin.autodiscover() urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^home/$','myapp.views.homepage'), (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), ) urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns() And in my HTML template, I have: <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ STATIC_URL }}stylesheet.css" type="text/css" /> The file "stylesheet.css" is located inside a folder called "static", which is inside the "myapp" folder, which is inside the main project folder. I would like to stress that I have already read djangoproject's documentation on static files, and have done my best to follow the instructions there, but with no success. I suspect this is because I am missing a step somewhere that isn't explicitly mentioned in either the main tutorial or the static file docs. As such, I think I need some kind of basic how-to for linking to static files and making them work while running the project on the development server. Could anyone either point me towards a good tutorial or volunteer a set of dummy-proof instructions on how to do this? I imagine it must be relatively simple--I'm not trying to gather my static files for deployment or production or anything, I just want to be able to test CSS and JS files in development. But I think I'm missing some basic step--maybe a console command or something? thanks, Guillaume Chorn -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.