Django: Migrating from MEDIA_URL to STATIC_URL - django

Question

Since Django 1.3 the concept of STATIC_URL has been introduced to separate use media files from css and js files.
I have set my STATIC_ROOT = '/home/user/project/static/' and
STATIC_URL = '/static/'.
In my base.html, i have changed the path like this:
<link href="{{ STATIC_URL }}bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet">
And in url.py I have added the following two lines:
from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
...
urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
My view renders the template with RequestCOntext:
return render(request, 'main_page.html', variables)
But in the development I still get 404 when running runserver.
[18/Aug/2012 17:12:04] "GET /static/jquery/jquery-1.8.0.min.js HTTP/1.1" 404 1682
What could I be missing?

Answer 1

settings.py
PROJECT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'site_media')
MEDIA_URL = '/site_media/'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
if DEBUG:
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'static')
else:
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'static'),
)
urls.py
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += patterns('',
url(r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT}),
)
That should work :)