I have MyApp/static/MyApp directory
When I run ./manage.py collectstatic, I expect the MyApp directory be copied to STATIC_ROOT but it doesn\'t
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That just happened to me and I accidentally put the app's static files directory in the .gitignore file. So on my local machine it got collected just fine, but in production the static files were actually missing (gitignored).
I was under the impression the comparison would be content based. It turned out to be date based. So, don't mess with your files after collecstatic
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One Quick work-around, although this does not fix it or explain WHY it's happening, is to:
python manage.py collectstatic
it will see that nothing is
in your static folder and will copy ALL static files over.This happened to me because while investigating a bug occurring on certain dates, changed my computer date and time.
Hence it disturbed things like collectstatic, and also my browser history.
Don't change your computer date and time.
just do this and make the naming convention same
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
]
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'assets')
static directory contains all off your project assets
assets directory will create automatic when u run this cmd
python3 manage.py collectstatic
this will copy all static folder content into assets folder
hope this helps :)
if you have setup everything properly for static and you are using nginx
then enter this command
sudo nginx -t
You will see error
why your static files aren't being served and fix that specific error
In my case I gave wrong path in my nginx config
location /static {
root /home/ubuntu/myproject/app/static/;
}