title: Unable to serve static files in a Django development environment with Pinax
body: <p>I'm trying to customize the Pinax theme that comes with starter projects. For some reason, I can't get my external css stylesheet to load. In the terminal, I get this error when I try to load the page that should be loading custom css:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;link href='{{ STATIC_URL }}css/stylesheet.css' rel='stylesheet' /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is my urls.py</p>
  
  <pre><code>from django.conf import settings
  from django.conf.urls import include, url
  from django.conf.urls.static import static
  from django.views.generic import TemplateView
  
  from django.contrib import admin
  from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
  
  
  urlpatterns = [
     url(r"^$", TemplateView.as_view(template_name="homepage.html"),        name="home"),
  url(r"^admin/", include(admin.site.urls)),
  url(r"^account/", include("account.urls")),
  
  ]
  
  urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL,
         document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is what I think is relevant in my settings.py</p>
  
  <pre><code>MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PACKAGE_ROOT, "site_media", "media")
  
  # URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use
  a trailing slash.
  # Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com/media/",
    "http://example.com/media/"
  MEDIA_URL = "/site_media/media/"
  
  STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PACKAGE_ROOT, "site_media", "static")
  
  STATIC_URL = "/site_media/static/"
  
  STATICFILES_DIRS = [
  os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, "static", "dist"),
  ]
  
   # List of finder classes that know how to find static files in
   # various locations.
   STATICFILES_FINDERS = [
  "django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder",
  "django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder",
  ]
  </code></pre>