Static files and Media files

[MWheeler91]

@KenWhitesell

(Side note: Many people believe that deployment of a Django application is one of the most difficult tasks to perform. Getting everything working together can be extremely confusing.)

I can 100% believe it. This has been the most confusing part.

@KenWhitesell

one for staticfiles, which gets populated during your deployment process using collectstatic ,

Based off the documentation, my STATIC_ROOT should be STATIC_ROOT = "/var/www/example.com/static/" or STATIC_ROOT = staticfiles depending on what deployment I use? If that is correct, then I need to move my static files to their corresponding application directory? I only have 1 app currently so everything has just been in the root.

@KenWhitesell

one for media files which will get populated by files being uploaded,

Okay that one seems simple enough

@KenWhitesell

and your project directory containing your Django application.

Are you referring to the folder that contains the ASGI, settings, and URL files?

Is this what the file structure should look like?

Project
	App1
       URLs.py
       views.py
       All_outer_app_files.py
       templates
	   static
           CSS
           JS
           Images
    App2
       URLs.py
       views.py
       All_outer_app_files.py
       templates
	   static
           CSS
           JS
           Images	
     media
        uploaded files
    staticfiles
        collection of all static files
	venv
	Project
        settings.py

MEDIA_URL = 'media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR / "media"
STATIC_URL = 'static/'
STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'staticfiles'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    BASE_DIR / 'app1/static/',
    BASE_DIR, 'app2/static/'
]