Django collected static files are not accessible by templates - django

Question

I've created a django project with some apps. Initially, I just had a single app and i had static files and templates in it. As my project grew, I added some other apps to the project which they are still accessing the statics files and templates from inside the main app. I wasn't giving much care to this problem until i tried to make a simple production and used collectstatic command. Seems i can collect my static files to the STATIC_ROOT directory but i can't access them in the templates. Here is my project structure:
shop/
-myshop(main app)
--statics
--templates
-(some other apps beside main app)
-shop(directory created by project containing settings.py, manage.py)
This is my relevant settings.py configurations:
BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
...
]
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
BASE_DIR / 'myshop/static',
]
STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'static'
After running collectstatic django creates the static directory in root of project but when i remove or rename the myshop/static i get static files 404 in runserver.
I dont know how to check {% load static %} resulting path in runtime to put more information here. Is there any debug routine to understand what's django backend doing?

Answer 1

Try this
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
BASE_DIR / "static",
]
STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR.parent / "static_cdn"
$ python manage.py collectstatic This command will copy all files from your static folders into the STATIC_ROOT directory.
You must write the names of the static folder and the static root folder diffrent.
To learn more https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/howto/static-files/#configuring-static-files