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Collectstatic error while deploying Django app to Heroku

I just updated to Django 1.10 today and had the exact same problem. Your static settings are identical to mine as well. This worked for me, run the following commands: disable the collectstatic during a deploy heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1 deploy git push heroku master run migrations (django 1.10 added at least one) heroku run python … Read more

What’s the point of Django’s collectstatic?

Collect static files from multiple apps into a single path Well, a single Django project may use several apps, so while there you only have one myapp, it may actually be myapp1, myapp2, etc By copying them from inside the individual apps into a single folder, you can point your frontend web server (e.g. nginx) … Read more