Django – referencing static files in templates

I’m having difficulty referencing static files in my templates. I am using Twitter Bootstrap and have the bootstrap files (css, img, js) sitting at mysite/static.

I have set the STATIC_URL, STATIC_ROOT and TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS according to this tutorial. I have run ./manage.py collectstatic which copied 72 files over. I have also added the below template tag to my template (index.html) file but this hasn’t worked.

{% load staticfiles %}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static user_stylesheet %}" type="text/css" media="screen"/>

Any help on how to reference the files so that the bootstrap styling returns to the templates would be much appreciated!

Answer

It should be

{% load static %}

And then something like

<!-- path -->
<link href="{% static 'bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css' %}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<!--->

Update for Completeness

Folder Structure

• proj
• app1
• app2
• myproj_public
• static
  • css
    • bootstrap.css
  • js
    • xyz.js

Settings File

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.abspath(
    os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'myproj_public', 'static')), '')

STATIC_URL = '/static/'