[Fixed]-Django heroku static dir

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The problem is the absolute path you are using for STATIC_ROOT isn’t found in Heroku server.

To resolve it, consider the following approach.

In your settings.py:

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
STATIC_ROOT= os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR,'staticfiles/')
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT,'static/'),
)
👤K Z

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You’re on your way. What’s happening is that Heroku is trying to use your STATICFILES_DIRS setting (/home/kevin/web/django/appheroku/blogapp/static) that exists locally on your machine but won’t doesn’t exist on the Heroku server.

A simple solution is to remove that line from the staticfiles_dir variable so you have:

STATICFILES_DIRS = ()

Then your default STATICFILES_FINDERS will kick in and you should be good to go to run your app both locally as well as deployed on Heroku.

👤eliotk

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For anyone who’s coming in like me:

Like @eliotk implies, 

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
STATIC_ROOT= os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR,'staticfiles/')
STATICFILES_DIRS = ()

This is the config you want to avoid FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: errors or OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: errors.

👤Tychovk

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