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Django static images receive 404 error in windows production

I am trying to deploy a Django app on a Windows server. I am able to make the pages load and am using wgsi. I am also able to load pages with images when using runserver, just not when accessing via the webserver. I have DEBUG = False.
My settings.py looks like this:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
BASE_DIR / "static",
]
STATIC_ROOT = "/assets/"
When I do collectstatic, my files are copied into the assets folder.
But, when served, I receive:
GET http://localhost:8000/static/js/main.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)

Try this in your urls.py:
urlpatterns = [
.....
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT )
also define the media root and url in you settings.py:
MEDIA_ROOT = 'media'
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
for more details: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/howto/static-files/#serving-files-uploaded-by-a-user-during-development

CSS is not showing in the admin page -Django

So I upload my site to digitalocean and when I went to the admin page the CSS was not showing
I visit all these sites but nothing seems to work
Django doc-static files
Pythonanywhere-DjangoStaticFiles
StackOverflow -why my django admin site does not have the css style
I set up my STATIC_ROOT and STATIC_URL, and then I ran
python manage.py collectstatic
And here is my seting
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '/home/django/django_project/django_project/static')
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/'),
]

You are specifying an Absolute Path for your join.
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, arg2) means join the current directory that is being executed and append the second argument.

add these lines into your settings.py file
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/'),
)

Django Static Files - CSS File Won't Load

I am learning Django, and am trying to load a static css file.
I have seen the other questions and read the docs, but I am still unable to see the problem.
I am using Django 1.11.
Here is my urls.py:
from django.conf.urls import url
from django.contrib import admin
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
from . import views
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', views.index),
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
] + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
My settings.py (only the part to do with static files):
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "/static/")
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
STATIC_ROOT,
)
And the part of my template where I try and load the files:
{% load static %}
Whenever I load the index.html template, the following error messages are displayed by my console:
core.js:5 Uncaught ReferenceError: define is not defined
at core.js:5
localhost/:12 GET http://localhost:8000/static/css/homepage.css
localhost/:11 GET http://localhost:8000/static/css/horz-navbar.css
localhost/:10 GET http://localhost:8000/static/css/fonts.css
localhost/:13 GET http://localhost:8000/static/css/style.css
Here is the file directory structure:
mysite
db.sqlite3
manage.py
mysite
__init__.py
settings.py
urls.py
views.py
wsgi.py
static
admin
css
fonts.css
horz-navbar.css
homepage.css
style.css
templates
index.html
So Django doesn't seem to recognize that the files exist, I have checked and made sure that the files exist on my computer, and I'm not sure if this was needed, but I have also run python manage.py collectstatic
Please tell me if you need anymore information.

Change your STATIC_ROOT into another name and then update your STATICFILES_DIR. Something like this:
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static_files')
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
)

Replace "{% static "css/fonts.css" %}" with "{% static 'css/fonts.css' %}". There's a mismatch between quotations.

STATIC_URL issue in django 1.5.4

I wanted to enable serving static files through django 1.5 builtin development server. I came across a strange problem.
If I make a request to my static file using localhost:8000/static/staticstyle.css then it responds me with 404 not found. But If I make a request to the same file without the value mentioned in the STATIC_URL and add the url pattern as "url(r'^anyval_other_than_mentioned_STATIC_URL/', django.views.static.serve,{'document_setting':settings.STATIC_ROOT}), ", then it responds me with 304 , which is conditional get.
I have collected all the static files in the static directory setup in the settings file and enabled all the context processor required for the template.
For production I have used nginx to serve the static file so there is no problem.
My settings.py looks like
STATIC_ROOT = APPLICATION_PATH+"/static/"
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
('vendors',APPLICATION_PATH+'/vendors'),
('admin/assets/',APPLICATION_PATH+'/templates/admin/assets'),
# 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.
)
My application urls.py looks like
urlpatterns = patterns('',
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
) + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
Any hints would be highly appreciated.
Thank you .

please read this first
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/howto/static-files/
There are some settings related to static files serve
The list of finder backends that know how to find static files in various locations.
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
)
Absolute path to the directory static files should be collected to
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(APPLICATION_PATH, '..', 'static')
URL prefix for static files.
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
You can specify Additional locations of static files
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(APPLICATION_PATH, 'vendors'),
os.path.join(APPLICATION_PATH, '/templates/admin/assets'),
)
There is special application for static serve in django contrib
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
...
)
After You have configured your project run collectstatic command
python manage.py collectstatic
This will copy all files from your static folders into the STATIC_ROOT directory.

Django cannot find my media files (on development server)

The media is currently on my local development machine.
My MEDIA_ROOT, MEDIA_URL, ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX and are specified as below:
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "media")
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
SITE_URL = 'http://localhost:80'
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/admin/'
There is no 'admin' folder but that shouldn't make a difference I don't think.
In the urls.py file I have:
(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
I am at a loss as to what I should do to get it working.
[I am trying to learn django and am working with an existing project that's pretty hairy]

You're mixing and matching pre and post-Django 1.3 static file handling. Originally all static files were served from MEDIA_URL, but Django 1.3 introduced the staticfiles contrib package and the associated STATIC_ROOT and STATIC_URL settings. django.views.static.serve utilizes the new staticfiles app, which you haven't set up.
Assuming you're running Django 1.3, first, you'll need to add 'staticfiles' to your INSTALLED_APPS. Then, you'll need to define STATIC_ROOT and STATIC_URL. The standard location is a project-root level directory named "static".
You'll also need to add the staticfiles template context processor:
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
...
'django.core.context_processors.static',
)
This will make the STATIC_URL variable available in your templates, so you can reference your resources with something like {{ STATIC_URL }}css/style.css
All your static resources will also need to go into an app(s)-level directory named "static". The actual project-root level "static" directory is never directly used. It's simply the place where the collectstatic management command dumps all your static resources for use in production.
If you want project-wide static resources (not tied to any one particular app), you'll need an entirely separate directory (i.e. not the same as MEDIA_ROOT or STATIC_ROOT). I tend to use one named "assets". You'll then need to tell Django to look in here for static resources as well with the STATICFILES_DIRS setting:
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'assets'), # or whatever you named it
)
MEDIA_ROOT/MEDIA_URL are now only used for user uploads (e.g. any file created through FileFields and ImageFields, so you still need it, but you won't ever manually store anything there.
When you reach production, your webserver will need to serve both MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT at MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL, respectively. You'll also need to run:
$ python manage.py collectstatic
To make Django compile all your static files into the directory specified by STATIC_ROOT.

works with django 1.8 - 1.11:
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static
urlpatterns = [
# ... the rest of your URLconf goes here ...
]
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/static-files/#serving-files-uploaded-by-a-user-during-development
note that Django documentation states that this is
not suitable for production use
(obviously unless you use if settings.DEBUG: part)

On development server, this page may help you.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/howto/static-files/
By adding follow code to urls.py:
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns += patterns('',
(r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': '/path/to/media'}),
)

With python-django 1.7 I used
if settings.DEBUG:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^$', 'blenderx3d.first_step.views.index'),
(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$','django.contrib.staticfiles.views.serve'),)