Confused comment for STATICFILES_DIR on settings.py

[Carlo Pires]

Comment for STATICFILES_DIR on settings.py should be:

# Locations of static files

and not:

# Additional locations of static files

[Russell Keith-Magee]

The comment is correct. It is *additional* locations, on top of those derived from individual apps.

[Carlo Pires]

So I'm missing something here. Where would be my app static files if I dont put anything in STATICFILES_DIR ?

Using django version 1.3 beta 1 SVN-15634, and following ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/, my static files on
SITE_ROOT/static dir are not served when using runserver and adding staticfiles_urlpatterns to URLconf.

I had to put SITE_ROOT/static on STATICFILES_DIR to make staticfiles_urlpatterns to find them.

[Carlo Pires]

Now I got it, each projects' app can have a static/ subdir which will be considered by staticfiles finder. Additional static files can be included in STATICFILES_DIR.