Django上的静态文件设置和目录结构

Question

I read Django Manual's this page and I decided to move my static directory. After I moved static directory and open a page, an error occurs on a browser.

FileNotFoundError at /myapp/ [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/jap/git/mysite/static'

Here is my old directories.

mysite/    
|---manage.py    
|---mysite/
|---myapp/
|---static/
    |----test.css

Then, here is my new directories.

mysite/
    manage.py
    mysite/
    myapp/
        static/
            myapp/
                test.css

settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'myapp',
    'debug_toolbar',
]

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
)
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
)

# cf
TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'),],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

If you give me some pieces of advice, I would be thankful. Thank you.

Django: 1.9.1 Python: 3.5.1

Answer 1

In your settings.py , you define where Django should lookup to search for your static files.

Right now, you define the folders it should lookup as

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

which is basically STATICFILES_DIRS = ("/home/jap/git/mysite/static/",)

But it its located at /home/jap/git/mysite/myapp/static/ and not /home/jap/git/mysite/static/ as configured, because you moved you static folder into your app folder.

So you should define your STATICFILES_DIRS as

APP_DIR = os.path.join(BASEDIR, 'myapp')
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(APP_DIR, 'static'),
)