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 recomme

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

@joerick's answer above is the thing. However, if you do not want to place another 'static' folder (git root/{your app}/static), you might consider changing the BASE_DIR variable that is initially supplied by django-admin makeproject:

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))

which is just the (git root/) directory

Answer 3

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'),
)