Django on Heroku - Broken Admin Static Files

Question

I have a Django app running on Heroku/Cedar, configured as per the instructions at https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django

Using gunicorn as per Heroku's instructions fails to include the static files required for Django's admin to function. I can change the Procfile to "manage.py run_gunicorn" for local development, but that doesn't fly on Heroku.

I've searched all over for a fix - is there some way to include the admin static files without throwing them on S3 with my other static files?

Answer 1

If you use runserver and configure your app with DEBUG=True, then it will serve the admin files just like on your development machine. However, this is definitely not the recommended way to do it, and I would suggest that you put them on S3.

Using the django-storages app it's very easy to configure collectstatic to automatically push all the admin files to S3. You can find directions here