[SOLVED] Django is not serving staticfiles

Django is not serving staticfiles

I would like to use django staticfiles, but unfortunately I can't get it to serve to images locally.

This is what I have done so far:

settings.py:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'content.apps.ContentConfig',
]

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),)

When I do a print(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')) I see the correct local path.

urls.py:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from django.urls import path
import content.views

urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
    path('', content.views.index, name='index'),
    path('/about', content.views.about, name='about'),
]
urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)

templates:

{% load static %}
...
{% static "css/master.css" %}

resolves to

/static/css/master.css

[EDIT] URL PATTERN looks like this

Using the URLconf defined in website.urls, Django tried these URL      
patterns, in this order:
admin/
[name='index']
/about [name='about']
^static/(?P<path>.*)$

Opening a file directly ends up to a 404-django-page.

After that, I ran ./manage.py collectstatic successfully.

I am using the Django Dev server e.g. ./manage.py runserver...

I am maybe missing something, just need an additional pair of eyes. Thanks.

Solution

Solved it by removing

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')

and replacing it with

STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "staticfiles"),)