Heroku & Django: "OSError: No such file or directory: '/app/{myappname}/static'"

Question

I have a Django app on Heroku. I am having some problems with static files (they are loading in one Heroku environment but not another), so I tried the debug command recommended here.

$ heroku run python manage.py collectstatic --noinput Running `python manage.py collectstatic --noinput` attached to terminal... up, run.8771 OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/app/{myappname}/static' 

Here is my settings.py, which is the same thing Heroku recommends:

import os import os.path  BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) STATIC_ROOT = 'staticfiles' STATIC_URL = '/static/'  STATICFILES_DIRS = (     os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'), ) 

I get the error whether or not I actually have a directory "static" at the root level in my Git repo (tested it both ways).

Any ideas?

Answer 1

It's looking for a folder named 'static' that's next to the settings.py, i.e. in the project folder, not at the root of the git repo.

git root/ git root/{app name} git root/{app name}/settings.py git root/{app name}/static/         <- this is what you're missing 

Note that empty folders aren't tracked by git, so you'll have to put a blank file in there if it's empty. Alternatively, remove the STATICFILES_DIRS setting until you need it.

Answer 2

I just had this same problem, and here's the solution that worked for me:

I changed:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (     os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'), ) 

to:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (     os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'myappfolder/static'), )