Django some css not working in production

Question

I have a django app. In production I ran collectstatic and all good except a small piece of css. This css thing is a question mark which on hover shows some tips about the app feature. This also could be a nginx configuration issue maybe. But again, just this piece of css does not work properly.

html

<div class="help-tip">
 <p> 
    some text
 </p>
</div>                               

css

/*-------------------------
    Inline help tip
--------------------------*/
.help-tip-wrapper{
  padding-top: 15px;
  padding-left: 5px;
}

.help-tip{
    text-align: center;
    background-color: #BCDBEA;
    border-radius: 50%;
    width: 24px;
    height: 24px;
    font-size: 14px;
    line-height: 26px;
    cursor: default;
}

.help-tip:before{
    content:'?';
    font-weight: bold;
    color:#fff;
}

.help-tip:hover p{
    display:block;

    -webkit-animation: fadeIn 0.3s ease-in-out;
    animation: fadeIn 0.3s ease-in-out;

}

.help-tip p{
    display: none;
    background-color: #1E2021;
    padding: 20px;
    width: 300px;
    border-radius: 3px;
    right: -4px;
    color: #FFF;
  font-weight: normal;
    font-size: 10px;
  z-index: 100;
    line-height: 1.4;
  position: relative;
}

.help-tip p:before{
    content: '';
    width:0;
    height: 0;
    border:6px solid transparent;
    border-bottom-color:#1E2021;
    right:10px;
    top:-12px;
}

.help-tip p:after{
    width:100%;
    height:40px;
    content:'';
    top:-40px;
    left:0;
}

settings.py

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

All css working fine except this one.

Answer 1

Your settings.py file is wrong.

It should look like this

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_DIRS = [
     os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
]

Also you have to now update your nginx or apach2 server with above change 'staticfiles'

When you run collectstatic command, it will now save your bundle in staticfiles dir and it will be served when your DEBUG=False . If your debug=True, then it will server from static folder