Static files (css, js and images) not served

I ran python manage.py collectstatic. How do I configure to serve static resources directly ?

Is DEBUG setting True or False?

Oh, you need to add Alias settings (or equivalent) to your webserver configuration. For Apache you need something like Alias /static/ /path/to/django-project/static/, where the second path will be specific to your setup.

DEBUG=False. I am using the same configuration file mentioned at http://askbot.org/doc/deployment.html Is there an issue with permissions ? What permissions are needed for django-project and other directories ?

With DEBUG=False you have to serve static files yourself - via the webserver. With DEBUG=True django will serve static files. For production it is very inefficient to serve static files via python (django). It could be that files are inaccessible to the webserver process. It could be for example because one of the directories above the static files being inaccessible to the effective user that runs the webserver process.

STATIC_URL should be '/static/' - with the leading and the trailing slash.

Yes that right... oops...

I have the following settings : MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'askbot', 'upfiles') MEDIA_URL = '/upfiles/' STATIC_URL = '/m/'#this must be different from MEDIA_URL

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(__file__) STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static')

And the virtualhost ?

I don't see virtualhost in settings.py