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

just add these instead

from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

using django 1.4.1

Answer 2

create 'static' folder into your 'project_directory'.

set the 'STATIC_ROOT' path in 'settings.py' file which can serve your admin-site's static files.

STATIC_ROOT = (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'static'))

Add STATIC_ROOT in '/urls.py'

from django.conf import settings
    urlpatterns += patterns('',
        url(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {
            'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT,
        }),
    )

Run the following command that will copy all the admin static files into project's static folder.

python manage.py collectstatic

Now do git add, commit and push heroku master.

Answer 3

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.