GAE and django: static files

Question

My static files are not being served. What I have verified:

• settings.STATIC_ROOT is properly defined: STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '..', 'collectstatic/')
• settings.STATIC_URL is properly defined: STATIC_URL = '/static/'
• I have done python manage.py collectstatic
• The static files are indeed collected: my collectstatic/ directory has the right assets
• The collectstatic/ directory is tracked in my git repo
• I have pushed to the gae repo: git push google (I am not sure if gae is using the gae repo copy for staging, or my local repo)
• When pushing to the gae repo, the assets are indeed present
• I have redeployed the app: gcloud preview app deploy app.yaml --promote -q
• My app.yaml is properly configured, as explained here

Specifically:

handlers:
- url: /static
  static_dir: collecstatic
- url: .*
  script: myproj.wsgi.application

Still I get 404 for:

https://my-site.appspot.com/static/admin/css/base.css

Why could this be? What else can I verify?

EDIT

On The logging tab of the Google Cloud Platform I see warning messages:

Static file referenced by handler not found: collecstatic/admin/css/base.css

I would say all my settings are correct though.

How can I verify if my app instance has the right assets in the right places? Is there a way of checking the filesystem structure of a running instance?

Answer 1

Embarassing, but the problem was a spelling error. I had:

handlers:
- url: /static
  static_dir: collecstatic

And should be:

handlers:
- url: /static
  static_dir: collectstatic

I'll keep this. Maybe helps somebody else.