title: Cannot serve static files, Django 1.6
body: <p>I am unable to get Django 1.6 to serve static files.</p>
  
  <p>In my settings.py I have:</p>
  
  <pre><code>DEBUG = True
  
  #...
  
  INSTALLED_APPS = (
      #...
      'django.contrib.staticfiles',
      #...
  )
  
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  STATIC_ROOT = '/home/it/static/'
  STATIC_DIRS = (
      os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '../static'),
  )
  STATIC_FINDERS = (
      'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have also added the following to my urls.py:</p>
  
  <pre><code>urlpatterns = patterns('',
      #...
  ) + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The HTML file in question has the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{% load staticfiles %}
  #...
  &lt;link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='{% static "css/base.css" %}' /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The relevant parts of the project tree look like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/media/extra/django/
  ├── it
  │   ├── it
  │   │   ├── __init__.py
  │   │   ├── settings.py
  │   │   ├── urls.py
  │   │   ├── wsgi.py
  │   ├── jobs
  │   │   ├── admin.py
  │   │   ├── __init__.py
  │   │   ├── models.py
  │   │   ├── static
  │   │   │   └── jobs
  │   │   ├── tests.py
  │   │   ├── urls.py
  │   │   ├── views.py
  │   ├── manage.py
  ├── static
  │   ├── css
  │   │   ├── base.css
  │   │   └── colours.css
  │   ├── images
  │   │   └── favicon.ico
  │   └── scripts
  │       └── base.js
  └── templates
      ├── it
      │   ├── base.html
      │   └── index.html
      ├── jobs
      │   └── index.html
      ├── site_base.html
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried having the static directory as a sibling of the 'it' directory (and changing the STATIC_DIRS variable).  I have tried using += staticfiles_urlpatterns() on the urlpatterns instead.  I have tried adding the full path to the STATIC_DIRS.</p>
  
  <p>I have also looked at these relevant threads:
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23425129/static-files-in-django-1-6-not-found">static files in django 1.6 not found</a>
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22463205/cant-get-django-to-serve-static-files">Can&#39;t get Django to serve static files</a>
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23062254/django-1-6-2-will-not-serve-static-content">Django 1.6.2 will not serve static content</a></p>
  
  <p>Many thanks</p>