title: Django Staticfiles not being served on Azure
body: <p>I'm trying to deploy a simple Django web app to an Azure website. I'm using Python Tools for Visual Studio because I couldn't get any other way to remotely work. I'm having an issue where my template loads but none of staticfiles will load. I've created a folder called <em>static</em> and have updated settings.py as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),)
  STATIC_ROOT = ''
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In my template (called index.html) which is stored in a templates folder also in the root, I refer to the files as follows: <code>&lt;img class='social' src="{% static 'VSpace/images/128-twitter.png' %}"/&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>The page loads with plain HTML (no CSS or images) and in the browser's developer view I see that a 404 was returned when requesting the images and the rest of the static files.</p>
  
  <p>I've searched for hours for a solutions and made all kinds of changes. Does anyone have any idea what I could be doing wrong?</p>