Helpers

static_url context processor

To refer to static file assets from a template, ensure you have set the STATIC_URL setting to the URL path where the static files are served.

Next, add the static_url context processor to your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS setting:

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    'staticfiles.context_processors.static_url',
)

Templates rendered with RequestContext will now have access to a STATIC_URL context variable:

<link href="{{ STATIC_URL }}css/polls.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Serving static files during development

Warning

Don’t use this on production servers. This feature is only intended for development. Please, don’t shoot yourself in the foot. Thanks.

To serve static media for both MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL add the following snippet to the end of your primary URL configuration:

from django.conf import settings
from staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns

if settings.DEBUG:
    urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()