Thanks Tom, your post got me thinking ! If the problem was the pathing then
using the absolute path should have worked. So , I put in
STATIC_ROOT="/home/vibhu/Programming/qj/static/"
But that still did not work - which means that I was still doing something
wrong. Finally, it hit me - I was using the wrong variable (see comment
copied below).
Instead of STATIC_ROOT , I should have been using STATICFILES_DIR
So, now my settings.py is as follows :
# Absolute path to the directory static files should be collected to.
# *Don't put anything in this directory yourself*; store your static files
# in apps' "static/" subdirectories and in STATICFILES_DIRS.
STATIC_ROOT=""
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
# Additional locations of static files
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),'../static/'),
)
And this is working ! Thanks for the tip for going up a directory else i
would still be floundering !
Vibhu
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Vibhu Rishi <vibhu.ri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am not sure where I am going wrong, but the CSS files are just not
> getting
> > picked up. I have just started a project and am using the dev server with
> > the runserver command.
> >
> > Here's my relevant settings.py :
> >
> >
> > STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),'/static/')
> > STATIC_URL = '/static/'
> >
> > My directory structure :
> > .
> > ├── homepage
> > │ └── templates
> > │ └── homepage
> > ├── qj
> > └── static
> > ├── css
> > ├── img
> > └── js
> >
> > qj is where my settings.py file is.
> > static is where i have the css.
>
> You've told it to look in the wrong place:
>
> >>> os.path.dirname('/path/to/project/qj/settings.py')
> '/path/to/project/qj'
> >>> os.path.join(os.path.dirname('/path/to/project/qj/settings.py'),
> 'static')
> '/path/to/project/qj/static'
>
> Try this instead:
>
> STATIC_ROOT = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__),
> '..', '/static/'))
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
>
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