You're using the staticfiles app without having set the STATIC_ROOT setting to a filesystem path

Question

I have gone through every other answer and cannot seem to get anything to work for me. I am following a tutorial and trying to push my master branch to heroku a

Answer 1

I was able to make this work by getting rid of the if statement all together and just having the following in my settings.py.

import dj_database_url
DATABASES = {
    'default': dj_database_url.config(default='postgres://localhost')
}

SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']

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