In my Django project I have a static folder in the root of the project (near manage.py), so in settings.py, in order to find this static files I have:
STATICFILES_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),]
How do I have to configure STATIC_ROOT? Now I think about:
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/')
But when I run collectstatic it fails, static files are loaded but not in the admin site.
How can I solve this issue?
STATIC_ROOT (doc) is the folder where every static files will be stored after a manage.py collectstatic
STATICFILES_DIRS (doc) is the list of folder where Django will search for additional static files, in addition to each static folder of each app installed.
So, if you use [project_root]/static directory as an additional folder you have to add it to STATICFILES_DIRS and use any other name for STATIC_ROOT
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'collected_static/')
