'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've been dealing with this issue all day. It turns out the problem was the staticfiles directory was not checked in to git. I created a dummy file inside this directory, checked it in and everything was fine. This was mentioned somewhere in the Whitenoise documentation too, I believe.