django html template can't find static css and js files

I have a django project that structure is like this:

>vira
     >vira
          -__init.py
          -settings.py
          -urls.py
          -wsgi.py
     >vira_app
          >migrations
          >template
                  -index.html
                  >static
                        >vira_app
                                >assets
                                      >css
                                      >js
                                      >vendor
                                          >aos
                                          >bootstrap
                                          >bootstrap-icons
                                          >isotope-layout
                                          >swiper
          -__init__.py
          -admin.py
          -apps.py
          -models.py
          -tests.py
          -urls.py
          -views.py
     -db.sqlite3
     -manage.py

I have used bootstrap. index.html is like below:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  {% load static %}
  <link href="{% static 'vira_app/assets/vendor/aos/aos.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">
  <link href="{% static 'vira_app/assets/vendor/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">
  <link href="{% static 'vira_app/assets/vendor/bootstrap-icons/bootstrap-icons.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">
  <link href="{% static 'vira_app/assets/vendor/swiper/swiper-bundle.min.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">
  {% load static %}
  <link href="{% static 'vira_app/assets/css/style.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">
</head>

<body>
  <main id="main">
        <div id="portfolio-grid" class="row no-gutter" data-aos="fade-up" data-aos-delay="200">
          {% if catalogue_list %}
            {% for Catalogue in catalogue_list %}
              <div class="item web col-sm-6 col-md-4 col-lg-4 mb-4">
                <a href="{{ Catalogue.link }}" class="item-wrap fancybox">
                  <div class="work-info">
                    <h3>{{ Catalogue.title }}</h3>
                    <span>{{ Catalogue.source }}</span>
                  </div>
                  <img class="img-fluid" src="{{ Catalogue.image }}">
                </a>
              </div>
            {% endfor %}
          {% endif %}
        </div>
      </div>
  </main>
  <a href="#" class="back-to-top d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center"><i class="bi bi-arrow-up-short"></i></a>
  <script src="assets/vendor/aos/aos.js"></script>
  <script src="assets/vendor/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"></script>
  <script src="assets/vendor/isotope-layout/isotope.pkgd.min.js"></script>
  <script src="assets/vendor/php-email-form/validate.js"></script>
  <script src="assets/vendor/swiper/swiper-bundle.min.js"></script>
  <script src="assets/js/main.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

settings.py:

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
            os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'vira_app', 'template')
        ],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = '/vira_app/template'

When I run the server and go to index.html, data retrieved from db and show well, but without any style!

I have tried some solution, check every static url, but not working

In fact, css, js and vendors not applied. What’s the problem?

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Some of settings are misused:

STATIC_URL = '/static/' – this is fine

STATIC_ROOT = '/vira_app/template' – nope, this is supposed to be some folder not really related to the project structure. In the end, on prod it can be a CDN URL or a folder on different server. So try changing it to something like STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static') for the start.

As mentioned in comments you might need to define STATICFILES_DIRS – a list of folders where from static files must be collected to STATIC_ROOT by collectstatic command. This means you can have many subfolders containing static files in different places. However you’ll need to collect those files all together to deploy somewhere. STATICFILES_DIRS + collectstatic will collect all of those files for you into given STATIC_ROOT (and contents of this folder should be deployed somewhere, to CDN for example).

Note, default set of STATICFILES_FINDERS already contains AppDirectoriesFinder which will automatically find all the static subfolders in any of the project apps. This means if you move static subfolder from templates to the vira_app root – you won’t have to mention it in the STATICFILES_DIRS.

So:

STATIC_ROOT should not point to any templates subfolders, change it to something more “global”
STATICFILES_DIRS should link to the folder(s) where you keep your static files now or this folder should be moved to the root of vira_app to let collectstatic find it
collectstatic must be run before checking your styles and scripts in rendered page
after running collectstatic all the static files must persist in STATIC_ROOT so django will be able to map relative urls after STATIC_URL to relative paths after STATIC_ROOT and those files will be loaded

Note, some of your static files are linked in wrong way in the shown template:

 <script src="assets/vendor/aos/aos.js"></script>

this should be changed to {% static... as well.

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