title: Django Static Files Development
body: <p>This seems to be a source of much confusion judging by the amount of similar titles on the subject, however trying everything I could find on static files with the django development server I've almost given up hope!</p>
  
  <p>So my static files are served from <em>C:/Users/Dan/seminarWebsite/static/</em>, in which I have sub folders for images, css etc. </p>
  
  <p><em>SETTINGS:</em>  </p>
  
  <pre><code>STATIC_ROOT = 'C:/Users/Dan/seminarWebsite/static/'  
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The static files app is also active. </p>
  
  <p><em>URLS:</em>  </p>
  
  <pre><code>from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns  
  urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><em>TEMPLATE:</em></p>
  
  <pre><code>"{{ STATIC_URL }}images/vision.jpeg"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However only a broken link appears and at this address: <code>http://127.0.0.1:8000/homepage/images/vision.jpeg</code> and I don't think it should be at that address (homepage is the url name of the page the static image file is being called to).</p>