Django on Heroku - Broken Admin Static Files

Question

I have a Django app running on Heroku/Cedar, configured as per the instructions at https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django

Using gunicorn as per Heroku\'s instr

Answer 1

Check out this post: http://matthewphiong.com/managing-django-static-files-on-heroku

If that doesn't work for you try adding the following to your urls.py after the normal url pattern tuple. Make sure you have your STATIC_ROOT set and you've run collect static on your local environment all before pushing to heroku.

urlpatterns += patterns('',
    url(r'^static/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {
        'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT,
    }),
 )