title: Django - static folder not in the base project
body: <p>I am having some trouble moving my 'static' folder out of the base 'django_project' project. From my experience, Django has looked for the 'static' folder inside of the base project, but it just seemed ugly to me and I wanted to move it next to all of my other Django applications.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my current file directory setup.</p>
  
  <pre><code>/home/django/django_project/
      /django_project/
      /myapplication/
      /templates/
      /static/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Right now, the 'templates' folder works fine and I can find all of my template files without any trouble. However, I cannot find any static files, the static setup always tricks me up.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my settings.py file for the 'django_project' base project.</p>
  
  <pre><code>...
  
  # Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
  # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/howto/static-files/
  
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  
  # Go back one directory from this file and move into the 'static' folder
  STATICFILES_DIRS = (
      os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname( __file__ ), '..', 'static')),
  )
  
  # Template files (HTML)
  
  TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
      '/home/django/django_project/templates/',
  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can anyone write out the STATIC_URL or STATICFILES_DIR so that it will point to my '/home/django/django_project/static/' folder? Thank you in advance.</p>