Django not loading static files into assets file - django

Question

I recently started a basic django project, i want to load an already made default template. This template has an assets folder with all the CSS, JS files etc
This folder, is later called in the templates, so for example i can have:
<base href="../">
// And a lot of static files being called like this:
<link href="./assets/scrollbar/css/scrollbar.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="./assets/somecss.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
// And so on..
<script src="./assets/somejsfile.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
The problem with this is that none of the files in the assets are being retrieved. I know that the problem depends on where i put the assets folder, but i don't know how to solve that. I tried to add it to different parts of my project's structure but it doesn't work, since i only get a lot of errors like this:
http://127.0.0.1:8000/assets/somecss.css net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)
Here is my settings.py:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
In this static folder, there is a basic css file i tested before trying this.
And here is the structure of my project:
//MAIN FOLDER
migrations
ASSETS
templates -> INDEX.HTML (where the assets folder is called)
views, forms etc

Answer 1

Have you read the documentation on this?
It is recommended to use the static template tag to make the filesystem location of your static files independent from your URLs. Using this tag, your URLs would have to be defined like this:
{% load static %}
<link href="{% static 'assets/scrollbar/css/scrollbar.css' %}"
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link href="{% static 'assets/somecss.css' %}"
rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
You also need to define the setting STATICFILES_DIRS because it looks like your static assets are not inside a default location inside an app of your project.