I'm using webfaction to make a simple static website. I think I have done everything correctly, but still my static files (i.e css, images) are not being served. I used this guide to set things up:
http://docs.webfaction.com/software/django/getting-started.html
I did everything they told me to, so in brief:
1) made a separate static media application
2) updated settings.py
3) ran
python manage.py collectstatic
All of the above went pretty much according to plan and I can now see my static files in the staticfile application that I named personalsitestatic. My django application is called personalsite.
The directory structure looks like this:
This is what the relevant values in my settings.py looks like:
STATIC_ROOT = '/home/<myname>/webapps/personalsitestatic/'
STATIC_URL = 'http://<sitename>.com/static/'
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
"/home/<myname>/webapps/personalsite/PersonalWebsite/templates/",)
I don't have any additional static directories outside of main/static so I am not using STATIC_DIRS. The templates appear to be loading fine, just none of the static files. When I inspect with firefox's debugger/inspect element thing it just says "stylesheet could not be loaded". Can anyone help me out here or at least give me some suggestions for debugging?
I was being silly and did not mount it to the /static url, hope this helps someone!