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+---
+title: Static Files
+description: "Files that get served **statically** (as-is, no modification) on the site root."
+date: 2017-11-18
+categories: [content management]
+keywords: [source, directories]
+menu:
+  docs:
+    parent: "content-management"
+    weight: 130
+weight: 130	#rem
+aliases: [/static-files]
+toc: true
+---
+
+By default, the `static/` directory in the site project is used for
+all **static files** (e.g. stylesheets, JavaScript, images). The static files are served on the site root path (eg. if you have the file `static/image.png` you can access it using `http://{server-url}/image.png`, to include it in a document you can use `![Example image](/image.png) )`.
+
+Hugo can be configured to look into a different directory, or even
+**multiple directories** for such static files by configuring the
+`staticDir` parameter in the [site config][]. All the files in all the
+static directories will form a union filesystem.
+
+This union filesystem will be served from your site root. So a file
+`<SITE PROJECT>/static/me.png` will be accessible as
+`<MY_BASEURL>/me.png`.
+
+Here's an example of setting `staticDir` and `staticDir2` for a
+multi-language site:
+
+{{< code-toggle copy="false" file="config" >}}
+staticDir = ["static1", "static2"]
+
+[languages]
+[languages.en]
+staticDir2 = "static_en"
+baseURL = "https://example.com"
+languageName = "English"
+weight = 2
+title = "In English"
+[languages.no]
+staticDir = ["staticDir_override", "static_no"]
+baseURL = "https://example.no"
+languageName = "Norsk"
+weight = 1
+title = "På norsk"
+{{</ code-toggle >}}
+
+In the above, with no theme used:
+
+- The English site will get its static files as a union of "static1",
+  "static2" and "static_en". On file duplicates, the right-most
+  version will win.
+- The Norwegian site will get its static files as a union of
+  "staticDir_override" and "static_no".
+
+Note 1
+: The **2** (can be a number between 0 and 10) in `staticDir2` is
+  added to tell Hugo that you want to **add** this directory to the
+  global set of static directories defined using `staticDir`. Using
+  `staticDir` on the language level would replace the global value (as
+  can be seen in the Norwegian site case).
+
+Note 2
+: The example above is a [multihost setup][]. In a regular setup, all
+  the static directories will be available to all sites.
+
+
+[site config]: /getting-started/configuration/#all-configuration-settings
+[multihost setup]: /content-management/multilingual/#configure-multilingual-multihost