Difference between static STATIC_URL and STATIC_ROOT on Django

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STATIC_ROOT

The absolute path to the directory where ./manage.py collectstatic will collect static files for deployment.
Example: STATIC_ROOT="/var/www/example.com/static/"

now the command ./manage.py collectstatic will copy all the static files(ie in static folder in your apps, static files in all paths) to the directory /var/www/example.com/static/. now you only need to serve this directory on apache or nginx..etc.

STATIC_URL

The URL of which the static files in STATIC_ROOT directory are served(by Apache or nginx..etc).
Example: /static/ or http://static.example.com/

If you set STATIC_URL = 'http://static.example.com/', then you must serve the STATIC_ROOT folder (ie "/var/www/example.com/static/") by apache or nginx at url 'http://static.example.com/'(so that you can refer the static file '/var/www/example.com/static/jquery.js' with 'http://static.example.com/jquery.js')

Now in your django-templates, you can refer it by:

{% load static %}
<script src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8687927/{% static"jquery.js" %}"></script>

which will render:

<script src="http://static.example.com/jquery.js"></script>

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