Changing django default static directory

I'm having a problem with Django 1.6:

I want to change the default static file directory in django. I do not want this in project/myapp/static

, but inproject/static

I have read the django documentation, added

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'static')
STATICFILES_DIR =(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),)

      

        
        
        
      

    

In my settings.py

Then I ran ./manage.py collectstatic

and the files copied as expected.

Finally I started the server, the application uses the django plugin for templates, so my template starts with:

{% extends 'dh5bp/base.html' %}
{% load url from future %}
{% load staticfiles %}
{% block head %}
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static "css/homepage.css" %}">
{% endblock %}

      

        
        
        
      

    

And the Css is not loading: but in my server log I got this:

[29/Aug/2014 11:23:03] "GET /static/js/dh5bp/plugins.js HTTP/1.1" 304 0
[29/Aug/2014 11:23:03] "GET /static/css/homepage.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1657

      

        
        
        
      

    

As you can see, the statics file from dh5bp (boiler stove plugin) loaded correctly, and the statics from my application loaded incorrectly.

I tried adding + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)

to my urls.py, right after urlpatterns, it didn't work.

So if someone can tell me to chat, I'm doing badly and what should I change in the settings. This could be great

EDIT:

Tried the solution here , it gives me the same result: only the statics from the template are loaded.

And not to mention that I was obviously checking if the files in / project / static exist, they exist.

EDIT 2:

I tried to put the old folder in my application to make sure it doesn't look for files in the old folder. It's not, so I don't know where django expects this file to be? Is there a debugging method that can help with this?