'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

Be sure to check all your settings related to static files, especially making sure the paths are pointing to the right locations. I personally had one of my STATICFILES_DIRS pointing to a wrong path.