title: Django 1.7 - Serving static files
body: <p>I'm following the <a href="https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/static-files/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">official documentation</a> in order to serve static files but I'm recieving error 404 in the development console. I'm using 'django.contrib.staticfiles', so static files should be automatically served. This is my setup:</p>
  
  <p>Settings: </p>
  
  <pre><code>STATIC_ROOT = ''
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Template header:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{% load staticfiles %}
  &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "css/app.css" %}"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Directory tree:</p>
  
  <pre><code>django_project
      \apps
      \static
          \css
              app.css
      \templates
          index.html
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can see in firefox console that the path to my file is correct:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JWLPA.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>So the problem must be that Django is not serving static files. I can't find what I'm missing. Any advice is more than welcome.</p>