STATIC_URL undefined in base Django template
I have a template, `base.html`, which is used in several other templates for various views. Each of those templates starts with the appropriate `{% extends "base.html" %}`. In the base template, I want to specify a static stylesheet thusly:

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

However, when it renders most of my templates, the value of `STATIC_URL` is empty, so the attribute is merely `href="/base.css"`, which doesn't load. The variable is properly defined for the template that I have tied to the default login view, `django.contrib.auth.views.login`, but for my own custom views, it's undefined.

I am just trying to get this working in the development environment with `runserver`, so the CSS file is in the static subdirectory of the app.

Here are the relevant bits from my `settings.py`, which are all the defaults:


    # URL prefix for static files.
    # Example: "http://media.lawrence.com/static/"
    STATIC_URL = '/static/'
    
    # Additional locations of static files
    STATICFILES_DIRS = (
        # Put strings here, like "/home/html/static" or "C:/www/django/static".
        # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
        # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
    )
    
    # List of finder classes that know how to find static files in
    # various locations.
    STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
        'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
        'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
    #    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
    )
    
    TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
        'django.core.context_processors.debug',
        'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
        'django.core.context_processors.media',
        'django.core.context_processors.static',
        'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
        'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
    )

In my `urls.py` I also have added:

    from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
    
    #...
    
    urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? As far as I can tell this is what you're supposed to do for serving app-specific static files in development, based on [the 1.3 documentation][1].

  [1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/howto/static-files/
STATIC_URL undefined in base Django template
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I have a template, `base.html`, which is used in several other templates for various views. Each of those templates starts with the appropriate `{% extends "base.html" %}`. In the base template, I want to specify a static stylesheet thusly:

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

However, when it renders most of my templates, the value of `STATIC_URL` is empty, so the attribute is merely `href="/base.css"`, which doesn't load. The variable is properly defined for the template that I have tied to the default login view, `django.contrib.auth.views.login`, but for my own custom views, it's undefined.

I am just trying to get this working in the development environment with `runserver`, so the CSS file is in the static subdirectory of the app.

Here are the relevant bits from my `settings.py`, which are all the defaults:


    # URL prefix for static files.
    # Example: "http://media.lawrence.com/static/"
    STATIC_URL = '/static/'
    
    # Additional locations of static files
    STATICFILES_DIRS = (
        # Put strings here, like "/home/html/static" or "C:/www/django/static".
        # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
        # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
    )
    
    # List of finder classes that know how to find static files in
    # various locations.
    STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
        'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
        'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
    #    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
    )
    
    TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
        'django.core.context_processors.debug',
        'django.core.context_processors.i18n',
        'django.core.context_processors.media',
        'django.core.context_processors.static',
        'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
        'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
    )

In my `urls.py` I also have added:

    from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
    
    #...
    
    urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? As far as I can tell this is what you're supposed to do for serving app-specific static files in development, based on [the 1.3 documentation][1].

  [1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/howto/static-files/