Python Django can't get static files to work-CodePudding

I'm working on a pyhton django project and now I'm trying to add some style to it with a styles.css file but I just can't get it to work.

My project is named commerce and my app is called auctions and I have the static file under commerce/auctions/static/auctions/styles.css

My settings.py file include

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

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

My auctions/urls.py

from django.urls import path
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns

from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path("", views.index, name="index"),
]

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns  = staticfiles_urlpatterns()

My styles.css file

h1 {
    color: red;
}

Then in my template file, I have this

{% load static %}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <title>{% block title %}Auctions{% endblock %}</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-Vkoo8x4CGsO3 Hhxv8T/Q5PaXtkKtu6ug5TOeNV6gBiFeWPGFN9MuhOf23Q9Ifjh" crossorigin="anonymous">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'auctions/styles.css' %}">
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>Auctions</h1>
   </body>
</html>

It feels like I'm missing something obvious.

EDIT: So I managed to fix my issue, and it was the STATIC_URL in my settings.py that was wrong, it looked in the wrong place. I updated it to:

STATIC_URL = 'auctions/static/'

And now it works. Thanks for your replies and help.

CodePudding user response：

you need to add this in your settings.py :

STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")
]

this should resolve the issue.

CodePudding user response：

Edit your settings.py file and add WhiteNoise (check here the lib) to the MIDDLEWARE list, above all other middleware apart from Django’s SecurityMiddleware:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    # ...
    "django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware",
    "whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware",
    # ...
]

You should also add this to the settings.py:

STATICFILES_STORAGE = "whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage"

For more details,check Using WhiteNoise with Django guide.