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 instr

Answer 1

If you are deploying to Heroku without using whitenoise (which I would suggest), definitely use dj_static https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dj-static!

I spent the past 3 hours trying to serve my files to heroku and dj_static worked within a matter of 2 minutes.