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WhiteNoise fails on missing file (that's there)

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When I enable WhiteNoise locally (added middleware, and STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.django.GzipManifestStaticFilesStorage') but when I run collectstatic I get the error that The CSS file 'css/business-casual.css' references a file which could not be found: staticfiles/img/clouds.jpg. The file is definitely there (my css has a relative path to its storage spot in my staticfiles directory… I’m pretty sure I did it right). Removing the staticfiles_storage fixes it locally although I’m still having trouble deploying it to heroku. Not sure if the errors are related or not

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Created 7 years ago
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evansdcommented, Feb 27, 2017

@paulnicholsen27 I’ve had a look, but I’m not familiar enough with django-compress to work out what’s going on.

The only thing I think of though is to double-check that ./manage.py compress is being run when you push to Heroku. You’ll need to create bin/post_compile script to do this. There are some examples here: https://github.com/nigma/heroku-django-cookbook/tree/master/bin

Hope that helps.

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FahimAhamed101commented, Apr 25, 2022

move installed apps like this
‘django.contrib.staticfiles’, ‘ckeditor’, ‘ckeditor_uploader’, i hope it will solve the problem

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