How do you collectstatic in production?

I’ve been searching around not finding much on this.Hope it’s fine to ask this here as I originally started the project from this template.

My first thought to collect the static files in a production environment was to go onto the production server and run ./manage.py collectstatic. The issue with this was that the developer pip packages weren’t installed so running manage.py threw an import error. I’m assuming this is the incorrect way to do it. My next thought was that collectstatic should be done in a similar fashion to the Amazon S3 collectstatic class but I can’t seem to find an already built solution to send your static files to your own server and save them in some directory. Is there a solution to this already?

[browniebroke]

This is working as expected, the manage script defaults to local settings, and on production, you should set an environment variable to use the production settings: DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE='config.settings.production'

Here are links:

• Doc for Python anywhere
• Doc for Heroku
• For Docker, it should be done out of the box by the env file.

If you deploy the project on another type of production machine, not using Docker, I would recommend checking with your hosting provider how to set environment variables.

[jkleve]

@browniebroke That seems obvious now, thank you.