title: Django findstatic : No matching file found
body: <p>A while ago, I attempted to use "collectstatic" in Django to serve my static files and failed miserably. Now I am finally trying to get my static files serving correctly in my development environment. I can't figure out what has gone wrong.</p>
  
  <p>When I run <code>python manage.py findstatic images/add.png</code></p>
  
  <p>console returns:</p>
  
  <pre><code>base path: C:\Projects\AlmondKing\AlmondKing
  static files dirs: C:\Projects\AlmondKing\AlmondKing\static
  No matching file found for 'images/add.png'.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The directory paths are correct, but it still can't locate my files. I've tried a number of different settings configurations to no avail. Can anyone spot my problem? Here are what I think are all the relevant settings:</p>
  
  <pre><code>BASE_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
  
  DEBUG = True
  
  INSTALLED_APPS = (
      'django.contrib.admin',
      'django.contrib.auth',
      'django.contrib.contenttypes',
      'django.contrib.sessions',
      'django.contrib.messages',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles',
      'AlmondKing.InventoryLogs',
      'AlmondKing.FinancialLogs',
      'AlmondKing.AKGenius',
  )
  
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  STATIC_FILES_DIRS = (
      os.path.join((BASE_DIR), "static")
  )
  
  print("base path:", BASE_DIR)
  print("static files dirs:", STATIC_FILES_DIRS)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>EDIT: I found the <code>findstatic --verbosity 2 command</code> and the only directory being searched is: <code>C:\Users\Adam\Envs\AlmondKing\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\admin\static</code></p>
  
  <p>Apparently it is only looking in my virtual environment, instead of my project directory. Is this normal Django behavior?</p>