'collectstatic' command fails when WhiteNoise is enabled

Question

I\'m trying to serve static files through WhiteNoise as per Heroku\'s recommendation. When I run collectstatic in my development environment, this happens:

Answer 1

The problem here is that css/iconic/open-iconic-bootstrap.css is referencing a file, open-iconic.eot, which doesn't exist in the expected location.

When you run collectstatic with that storage backend Django attempts to rewrite all the URLs in your CSS files so they reference the files by their new names e.g, css/iconic/open-iconic.8a7442ca6bed.eot. If it can't find the file it stops with that error.