'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

I had similar problem, but with a twist.

I deployed on pythonanywhere. If I turn debug True, app runs fine. But if a turn debug False, app crashes with a error that with one line being the summary

ValueError: Missing staticfiles manifest entry for 'favicons/favicon.ico'

I changed from STATIC_ROOT = 'staticfiles to STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')

Deleted staticfiles directory, then rerun python manage.py collectstatic.

Now app runs fine