Django staticfiles not found on Heroku (with whitenoise)

Question

This question seems to be asked several time but I can not fix it.

I deployed a django app on production with DEBUG = False. I set my allowed_hos

Answer 1

With DEBUG=False, what originals use to work does not work for me anymore.

However a fix by enabling whitenoise on MIDDLEWARE in settings.py solved it. Best to be just below SecurityMiddleware.

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware', # add this line
    #Other middleware...
]

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According to the docs, it actually needs to be enabled in the first place.