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Error 404 serving media files in a Django app hosted on DigitalOcean

I am making a small Django app and I want to use files uploaded via Django admin panel in production
This is from my settings.py file
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
)
MEDIA_URL = ''
MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR
I trust admin uploaded files and want to serve them easily(without Amazon S3 and similar services), so i tried to place the uploaded files with other static files
image = models.ImageField(upload_to='static/images')
After uploading an image via admin panel i run python manage.py collectstatic in the DigitalOcean console. Whenever i try to access the image i get Error 404, while all other static files(which are real static files, not uploaded via admin panel) load successfully
I did the same thing locally and there is no problem, everything loads as expected(DEBUG=True is set both locally and on DigitalOcean). Is it some security measure that doesnt let uploaded files end up in static? How can i bypass it if i trust files uploaded via admin panel?

if you're using manage.py runserver to run you website
first make sure that the media is being served in your main urls.py
urlpatterns = [
...
] + [
static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
]
then you can use runserver with --insecure to run your website with or without DEBUG=True
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80 --insecure
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/contrib/staticfiles/#cmdoption-runserver-insecure
as in the django documentation this is not the recommended way to serve your files, you should use a reverse proxy like nginx or apache
or if you really dont want to use a reverse proxy, you could give whitenoise a try
http://whitenoise.evans.io/en/stable/django.html

Django server does not serve static files for admin page

I have a Django server running with nginx and gunicorn.
All static files are served correctly, only the admin page has no css, js, etc. .
I already ran collectstatic and restarted nginx and gunicorn.
Nothing changed.
What can I do?

Make sure to mention the locations of your staticfiles_dirs in settings.py. Also remember to mention the locations of your static files in a dynamic format instead of hard coding them in your html document.And make sure to load static in base.html.

Try using this sample code in your settings.py file:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS=[
os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'templates'),
'/var/www/static/'
]
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'assets')
After this use the following command in terminal:
python manage.py collectstatic
This should create the static folder and copy all the static objects inside

Django: In deployment where stays the static files of admin?

i have a web application runing, the statics files from apps works but in /admin/ seems like doesn't have a css file. In the production the admin page works fine.
My question is where is the css file from admin page of django?
Just in case if somebody want to check, this is my configuration of static files of the web-app in deployment
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = '/apps_wsgi/generic_name/main/static/'
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = '/apps_wsgi/generic_name/main/media/'

You need to run the collectstatic management command. There are static files for other apps in the site-packages of your virtualenv and that command will copy/generate them into the correct static files location for your application.

Django 1.8 serving static files during deployment

My project runs fine on the local sever but during deployment on Heroku, I get the following error
Collectstatic configuration error. To debug, run: $ heroku run python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
I understand this is due to STATIC_ROOT settings in settings.py, but I can't seem to point to the location of the static files properly.
This is my folder structure.
C:/
/Users
/Mac
/denv
/musicpro
/musicpro
/featureapp
/static
/featureapp
/css
/img
/js
settings.py
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = 'musicpro/featureapp/static/featureapp/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")
)

Django with ./manager runserver works well, while Django + uwsgi return 404

This si my settings.py about static in settings.py:
STATIC_ROOT = '/home/coat/www/site/app/static/'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
"/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/",
# This is Django admin default static files
)
I user django server:
./manager runserver
Then I open the URL: http://localhost:8000/static/admin/css/base.css
It works very well.
But a open http://localhost/static/admin/css/base.css
It print '404'
I had restart Nginx and uwsgi for many times, but it dosen't works.

First things first, this is nonono:
STATIC_ROOT = '/home/coat/www/site/app/static/'
Never hardcode absolute paths, you're just making your settings file less portable and probably killing kittens. Adapt this to your needs:
import os.path
import posixpath
PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..')
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static')
# fix STATICFILES_DIRS too
Now, to your question. django.contrib.staticfiles is fantastic but probably a little confusing at first.
You must understand the collectstatic command:
Collects the static files into STATIC_ROOT. [...] Files are searched by using the enabled finders. The default is to look in all locations defined in STATICFILES_DIRS and in the 'static' directory of apps specified by the INSTALLED_APPS setting.
With runserver, staticfiles are served automatically, but in production mode (DEBUG=False, real HTTP server like Nginx), you should run collectstatic to (re)build STATIC_ROOT
STATIC_ROOT: is the root path where the HTTP server should serve static files from.
STATIC_URL: is the root URL where the HTTP server should serve static files to.
STATICFILES_DIRS: other static directories, in addition to each app's "static" subdirectory. Because django.contrib.admin is a normal app with a "static" folder, there is no need to specify it in the settings.
Conclusion: if STATIC_ROOT resolves to /home/coat/www/site/app/static/, and STATIC_URL is /static/, then you should:
Run collectstatic management command
Configure Nginx to serve /home/coat/www/site/app/static/ on /static/, ie.:
location ^~ /static/ {
alias /home/coat/www/site/app/static/;
}
Reload nginx

In development the runserver command does some magic to serve your static files. In production you need to configure NGinx to do it. There are two chapters in the Django documentation I recommend you read:
Serving static files in production
Serving files (Deployment)
Especially the last link explains how you have to configure your NGinx to serve your static files.