Collectstatic error while deploying Django app to Heroku

Question

I\'m trying to deploy a Django app to Heroku, it starts to build, download and installs everything, but that\'s what I get when it comes to collecting static files

Answer 1

You have STATICFILES_DIRS configured to expect a static directory in the same directory as your settings.py file, so make sure it's there not somewhere else.

Also, do you have any files in that static directory? If you don't then git won't track it and so although it exists locally it won't exist in git. The usual solution to this is to create an empty file called .keep in the directory which will ensure that git tracks it. But once you have some static files in this directory then it won't be a problem anymore.