Django: ImproperlyConfigured: The storage backend of the staticfiles finder doesn't have a valid location <p>I was using Django and the static files cannot load, the error is: </p> <pre><code>ImproperlyConfigured: The storage backend of the staticfiles finder &lt;class 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder'&gt; doesn't have a valid location. </code></pre> <p>Here is the views.py:</p> <pre><code>def results(request): metaUrl = "" if not request.method == 'POST': print "Not Post!" else: metaUrl = request.POST['urls'] cmodel = InfoController() (firstList, wordList, sizeList) = cmodel.controller(metaUrl) print "I am at result" return render( request, 'infoRetriever/results.html', { 'firstList': firstList, 'wordList': wordList, 'sizeList': sizeList}) </code></pre> <p>It's weird that when I was using </p> <pre><code>return render_to_response('infoRetriever/results.html', { 'firstList': firstList, 'wordList': wordList, 'sizeList': sizeList}, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) </code></pre> <p>to replace the last sentence in the views.py, the static files loads OK, but other problems would occur. Could anyone help me? Thank you very much.</p>