Django is not serving staticfiles - django

Question

I would like to use django staticfiles, but unfortunately I can't get it to serve to images locally.
This is what I have done so far:
settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'content.apps.ContentConfig',
]
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),)
When I do a print(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')) I see the correct local path.
urls.py:
from django.contrib import admin
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from django.urls import path
import content.views
urlpatterns = [
path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
path('', content.views.index, name='index'),
path('/about', content.views.about, name='about'),
]
urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
templates:
{% load static %}
...
{% static "css/master.css" %}
resolves to
/static/css/master.css
[EDIT]
URL PATTERN looks like this
Using the URLconf defined in website.urls, Django tried these URL
patterns, in this order:
admin/
[name='index']
/about [name='about']
^static/(?P<path>.*)$
Opening a file directly ends up to a 404-django-page.
After that, I ran ./manage.py collectstatic successfully.
I am using the Django Dev server e.g. ./manage.py runserver...
I am maybe missing something, just need an additional pair of eyes. Thanks.

Answer 1

Solved it by removing
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
and replacing it with
STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "staticfiles"),)