Django: Set path for global static files

25 July 2018 — Written by Mitesh Patel

In Django all your custom js/css/images are placed in /static/ directory of your module, But global file should be placed in your application, Django is not supplied with already created / configured global static path. you have to configure it manually.

To configure it, we use "os" package to mange directory creations, Which is already imported in your settings.py as

import os

Go to settings.py of your project application
set STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")
And run django command python manage.py collectstatic
These will place your all modules/plugins static files into root static folder inside application folder.

STATIC_URL is independent of the name, it will create a kind of alias for your static path. so, optionally you can set it any thing else. like

STATIC_URL = '/assets/'