title: STATIC_ROOT in Django not working correctly
body: <p>Trying to get static root set properly,</p>
  
  <p>Went through the tango with Django tutorial and stuck on this part.</p>
  
  <p>Basically this is my setting files, and the static folder is linked below in the tree.</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:.
  ├───media
  │   └───locations
  │       └───2018
  │           └───11
  │               └───11
  │                   └───20
  │                       └───18
  ├───Space
  │   └───__pycache__
  ├───Spaces
  │   ├───migrations
  │   │   └───__pycache__
  │   └───__pycache__
  ├───static
  │   ├───admin
  │   │   ├───css
  │   │   │   └───vendor
  │   │   │       └───select2
  │   │   ├───fonts
  │   │   ├───img
  │   │   │   └───gis
  │   │   └───js
  │   │       ├───admin
  │   │       └───vendor
  │   │           ├───jquery
  │   │           ├───select2
  │   │           │   └───i18n
  │   │           └───xregexp
  │   ├───css
  │   └───images
  │       └───parralax
  │           └───home
  ├───templates
  │   ├───registration
  │   └───Spaces
  └───users
      ├───migrations
      │   └───__pycache__
      └───__pycache__
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and below you can see the settings i'm using for this .</p>
  
  <pre><code>"""
  Django settings for Space project.
  
  Generated by 'django-admin startproject' using Django 2.1.1.
  
  For more information on this file, see
  https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/settings/
  
  For the full list of settings and their values, see
  https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/settings/
  """
  
  import os
  
  # Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
  
  
  
  BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
  TEMPLATE_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')
  STATIC_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
  MEDIA_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'media')
  
  
  
  # Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
  # See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/howto/deployment/checklist/
  
  # SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
  SECRET_KEY = '5a@tkcbah13t_vb!6pp6#z1c3j-3abb!&amp;$6r-mw+%0mtzg$qo@'
  
  # SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
  DEBUG = True
  
  ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
  
  
  # Application definition
  
  INSTALLED_APPS = [
      'django.contrib.admin',
      'django.contrib.auth',
      'django.contrib.contenttypes',
      'django.contrib.sessions',
      'django.contrib.messages',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles',
      'django.contrib.sites',
      'users',
      'Spaces',
      'allauth',
      'allauth.account',
      'allauth.socialaccount',
      'allauth.socialaccount.providers.google',
  ]
  
  MIDDLEWARE = [
      'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
  ]
  
  ROOT_URLCONF = 'Space.urls'
  
  TEMPLATES = [
      {
          'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
          'DIRS': [TEMPLATE_DIR,],
          'APP_DIRS': True,
          'OPTIONS': {
              'context_processors': [
                  'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                  'django.template.context_processors.request',
                  'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                  'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
                  'django.template.context_processors.media'
              ],
          },
      },
  ]
  
  STATICFILES_DIRS = [STATIC_DIR,  ]
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  MEDIA_ROOT = MEDIA_DIR #where to look for files
  MEDIA_URL = '/media/' #where to serve files from on url
  WSGI_APPLICATION = 'Space.wsgi.application'
  
  
  # Database
  # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/settings/#databases
  
  DATABASES = {
      'default': {
          'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
          'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
      }
  }
  
  
  # Password validation
  # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators
  
  AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
      },
  ]
  
  AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
  
      'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
  
      'allauth.account.auth_backends.AuthenticationBackend',
  
  )
  AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'users.CustomUser'
  SITE_ID = 1
  
  LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = 'home'
  # Internationalization
  # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/i18n/
  
  LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
  
  TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
  
  USE_I18N = True
  
  USE_L10N = True
  
  USE_TZ = True
  
  LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = 'index'
  LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = 'index'
  # Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
  # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/howto/static-files/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>essentially just want the root for static to be where i've put "static" in the directory.</p>
  
  <p>Essentially I'm uploading to Heroku ATM, and I'm getting an error that it can't find the static root.</p>
  
  <p>When changing my STATIC_ROOT to,</p>
  
  <pre><code>STATICFILES_DIRS = [STATIC_DIR,  ]
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  MEDIA_ROOT = MEDIA_DIR #where to look for files
  MEDIA_URL = '/media/' #where to serve files from on url
  WSGI_APPLICATION = 'Space.wsgi.application'
  STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get this issue :(</p>