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I am developing a Django (1.3) project composed of many applications. Each application has its own static files under its own static directory. Moreover, I have added a directory called project_static which should contain static files which are common throughout the various applications, such as jQuery. The problem I immediately run into is that of naming collisions. By default, collectstatic will just put everything under a global static directory, without classifying them by application. This does not work for me, as each application has - for instance - a file called css/screen.css . The way I solved it is by removing django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder from STATICFILES_FINDERS and using namespaced static files dirs , so my settings now look like: STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'project_static'), ('my_app', os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'my_app', 'static')), ('another_app', os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'another_app', 'static')), ... ) STATICFILES_FINDERS = ( 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder', ) The problem is that in this way I lose the static files for all other applications (e.g. django.contrib.admin ). Of course I could manually add the admin, but I'm not sure how to do this without breaking the admin, which has a different directory structure. Is there a better way to manage the static files with more than one application?

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