Django part 6 tutorial issue

Using Django Getting Started
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Hey the error I am getting is:

“GET /static/polls/style.css HTTP/1.1” 404 179"

I have a css file located at: mysite/polls/static/polls/style.css
and an index.html: mysite/polls/templates/polls/index.html

I have added this at the top of my index.html as instructed in the tutorial:

{% load static %}
<link rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” href=“{% static ‘polls/style.css’ %}”>

My settings.py contains:

# STATIC_URL = ‘static/’
STATIC_URL = ‘/static/’

I have tried both versions and still get the same error.
I have restarted the server and I have done a hard refresh on the browser.

I have also tried this solution I found on Stack over Flow, but it did not work:

STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'polls/static')]

I am not sure what I am doing wrong

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Hey there!
One thing to keep in mind is that Django is actually finding your static file at polls/style.css, it’s not serving it apparently. I say it because if you try to use the {% static some_app/does_not_exist.css %} you’ll get an error while loading the template, and that does not seem to be the case.

I would recommend that you check if your DEBUG setting is defined to True, Django will only serve static files when this configuration is set to True.
Another thing is to make sure that you’ve setup the INSTALLED_APPS settings correctly as defined on the part 2 of the tutorial.

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Hey,

My debug is not set to true.
I have set it to false.
If it is set to false how do we view static files in that scenario ?

Thanks for you input

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That’s another topic, this is covered on the deployment section of the documentation.
But when you’re developing your application you should always have DEBUG=True otherwise you won’t be seeing your static files and all of the goodies that comes when the DEBUG mode is set.

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