id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 4783,documentation changes for serving static media,klok001@…,nobody," http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/static_files/ In the above documentation it does not mention that for your own project you should choose a url different from ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX for serving static files. Also based on the settings file and website http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/settings/, it seemed that MEDIA_URL was related to serving static media. Perhaps changing the default comments in settings.py to better explain when MEDIA_URL is actually used, and even perhaps mentioning that static files need to be dealt with another way. Also, ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX would be better explained as the ""URL prefix for media in the admin project"". As it stands in the settings and online documentation http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/settings/, it is the ""URL prefix for admin media"". To me admin media sounds like media owned by the administrator, which could mean all media. Finally, there are a few tricks to getting CSS files to work within a template (you might tell where I tripped up). Adding a simple explanation to the tutorial I think would save many people some time. Thanks! ",,closed,Documentation,0.96,,fixed,media static ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX,,Accepted,0,0,0,0,0,0