Heroku collectstatic not run during deployment

Question

I have a django app that I am successfully deplying to heroku. When I dry-run the collectstatic command locally everything works fine.

python manage.py colle         


        

Answer 1

Try these three things:

• Create this Heroku config variable: DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE with a value of myapp.settings.prod--or as appropriate for your Heroku settings file
• Use Whitenoise as described in the Heroku docs: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django-assets
• Check it in and redeploy your dyno: git push heroku master

I found I was missing the first item, the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE" e.g., Command line collectstatic would work but that didn't matter b/c it was an ephemeral dyno