ok, so I set up a simple 'paired-down' working example of this so no moving pieces were missing. Some Notes:
This means that you need to hack-n-slash your MEDIA references. ( MEDIA is really meant for file upload's) and you dont need to fool with the staticfiles_urlpatterns in your urls.py file. As you get this behavior out-of-the box when you add 'django.contrib.staticfiles' to your settings.py
Overview: Here is what your file tree-layout will look like in django 1.6, and the file structure that I am referencing in this answer.
├── djproj
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── settings.py
│ ├── urls.py
│ ├── wsgi.py
├── manage.py
└─── myapp
├── admin.py
├── __init__.py
├── models.py
├── static
│ └── myapp
│ └── myimage.jpg
├── templates
│ └── index.html
├── tests.py
└── views.py
Step 1: Make sure that django.contrib.staticfiles is included in your INSTALLED_APPS.
Step 2: In your settings file, define STATIC_URL, for example:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
Step 3: change your home.html to look like this ( I used index.html in my example )
[ PROJECT_HOME/myapp/templates/index.html ]
<html>
<head>
<title>MY SITE</title>
</head>
<body>
{% load staticfiles %}
<img src="{% static "myapp/myimage.jpg" %}" alt="My image"/>
Welcome to my site
</body>
</html>
Make sure to read the django-1.6 staticfiles documentation related to STATICFILES_STORAGE so you understand what these template tags are buying you. Hint: python manage.py collectstatic
Step 4: ( you may have already done this, but I did not see it) Make sure that TEMPLETE_DIRS is defined in your settings.py and includes your home.html ( key here is that django's template engine needs to be serving this as we will be using some template tags)
[ PROJECT_HOME/djproj/settings.py ]
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
# Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates".
# Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
# Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
BASE_DIR + '../myapp/templates',
)
Step 5: build a view that renders your home.html page.
[ PROJECT_HOME/myapp/views.py ]
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
def index( request ):
return render_to_response('index.html')
Since this is a bit convoluted, and there are several moving pieces here: here is a changeset that shows the complete 'changes'
You can of-coarse pull the entire github project if any of this is confusing.
django-staticfiles-setupexample
Final Note: STATIC files were not always handled this way in django. The MEDIA dir used to be the settings attr you were after. So this answer is for Django 1.6 ( staticfiles were added in django version 1.3)( the directory layout was changed in django 1.5).
You can ( as you were trying to do) hardwire your media dirs to the STATIC defines. Altho I do-not recommend this. Which is why I did not describe how to do it this way.
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))