title: Django - Can't Get Static Files To Work In Development
body: <p>First of all apologies for my earlier post which I accidently submitted before finishing the question... I'm not spamming :)</p>
  
  <p>This seems to be a source of much confusion judging by the amount of similar titles on the subject, however after reading everything I could find on static files with the django development server i've almost given up hope!</p>
  
  <p>So my static files are served from <code>C:/Users/Dan/seminarWebsite/static/</code>, in which i have sub folders for images, css etc. For simplicity lets just say I want an image to show on my website homepage (an easy task I would have hoped!)</p>
  
  <pre><code>SETTINGS:  
  STATIC_ROOT = 'C:/Users/Dan/seminarWebsite/static/'  
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The static files app is also active.</p>
  
  <pre><code>URLS:  
  from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns  
  urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
  
  TEMPLATE: "{{ STATIC_URL }}images/vision.jpeg"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However only a broken link appears and at this address: <code>http://127.0.0.1:8000/homepage/images/vision.jpeg;</code> and i don't think it should be at that address (homepage is the url name of the page the staic image file is being called to)</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be fantastic as its grinding my project to a hault.  </p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>