title: Django static Files
body: <p>I am trying to develop a website with Django following various guides, the documentation and google. I have some flat pages set up that need access to images/css files.</p>
  
  <p>My settings.py file looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code># Django settings for FirstBlog project.
  
  DEBUG = True
  TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG
  
  ADMINS = (
      # ('Your Name', 'your_email@example.com'),
  )
  
  MANAGERS = ADMINS
  
  DATABASES = {
      'default': {
          'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
          'NAME': 'db',                      # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
          'USER': '',                      # Not used with sqlite3.
          'PASSWORD': '',                  # Not used with sqlite3.
          'HOST': '',                      # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3.
          'PORT': '',                      # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3.
      }
  }
  
  # Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here:
  # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name
  # although not all choices may be available on all operating systems.
  # On Unix systems, a value of None will cause Django to use the same
  # timezone as the operating system.
  # If running in a Windows environment this must be set to the same as your
  # system time zone.
  TIME_ZONE = 'America/Chicago'
  
  # Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here:
  # http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html
  LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
  
  SITE_ID = 3
  
  # If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not
  # to load the internationalization machinery.
  USE_I18N = True
  
  # If you set this to False, Django will not format dates, numbers and
  # calendars according to the current locale
  USE_L10N = True
  
  # Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files.
  # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/media/"
  MEDIA_ROOT = ''
  
  # URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a
  # trailing slash.
  # Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com/media/", "http://example.com/media/"
  MEDIA_URL = ''
  
  # Absolute path to the directory static files should be collected to.
  # Don't put anything in this directory yourself; store your static files
  # in apps' "static/" subdirectories and in STATICFILES_DIRS.
  # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/static/"
  STATIC_ROOT = '/export/mailgrp4_a/sc10jbr/WWWdev/FirstBlog/djangostatic/'
  
  # URL prefix for static files.
  # Example: "http://media.lawrence.com/static/"
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  
  # URL prefix for admin static files -- CSS, JavaScript and images.
  # Make sure to use a trailing slash.
  # Examples: "http://foo.com/static/admin/", "/static/admin/".
  ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/static/admin/'
  
  # Additional locations of static files
  STATICFILES_DIRS = (
      '/export/mailgrp4_a/sc10jbr/WWWdev/FirstBlog/static/',
      # Put strings here, like "/home/html/static" or "C:/www/django/static".
      # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
      # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
  )
  
  # List of finder classes that know how to find static files in
  # various locations.
  STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
      'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
  #    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
  )
  
  # Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody.
  SECRET_KEY = 'nc*v+e13e#!b+dq9mh-vwi0smy#r97#by1w7pvc36ez$j%rz1b'
  
  # List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources.
  TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
      'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader',
      'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader',
  #     'django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader',
  )
  
  MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
      'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.flatpages.middleware.FlatpageFallbackMiddleware',
  )
  
  ROOT_URLCONF = 'FirstBlog.urls'
  
  TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
      '/export/mailgrp4_a/sc10jbr/WWWdev/FirstBlog/templates',
      # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
      # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
      # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
  )
  
  INSTALLED_APPS = (
      'django.contrib.auth',
      'django.contrib.contenttypes',
      'django.contrib.sessions',
      'django.contrib.sites',
      'django.contrib.messages',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles',
      'FirstBlog.blog',
      'django.contrib.flatpages',
      # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
      'django.contrib.admin',
      # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
      'django.contrib.admindocs',
  )
  
  # A sample logging configuration. The only tangible logging
  # performed by this configuration is to send an email to
  # the site admins on every HTTP 500 error.
  # See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/logging for
  # more details on how to customize your logging configuration.
  LOGGING = {
      'version': 1,
      'disable_existing_loggers': False,
      'handlers': {
          'mail_admins': {
              'level': 'ERROR',
              'class': 'django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler'
          }
      },
      'loggers': {
          'django.request': {
              'handlers': ['mail_admins'],
              'level': 'ERROR',
              'propagate': True,
          },
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have put my images/css files in <code>FirstBlog/static/images</code> and <code>/css</code>. I ran the command</p>
  
  <pre><code>python manage.py collectstatic
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which put all my files in <code>FirstBlog/djangostatic</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to access the image from my flatpage index.html using the tag:</p>
  
  <pre><code>src="{{ /static/ }}images/header.png"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have included this line in my urls.py file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>url(r'^static/(.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root':settings.STATIC_PATH}),
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is giving me the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Name Error at /static
  
  name 'settings' is not defined
  
  Request Method:     GET
  Request URL:    http://127.0.0.1:8000/static
  Django Version:     1.3.1
  Exception Type:     NameError
  Exception Value:    
  
  name 'settings' is not defined
  
  Exception Location:     /home/cserv2_a/soc_ug/sc10jbr/WWWdev/FirstBlog/../FirstBlog/urls.py in &lt;module&gt;, line 19
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Im sorry if this should be obvious, I've spent hours looking on the internet.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>