You're using the staticfiles app without having set the STATIC_ROOT setting to a filesystem path

Question

I have gone through every other answer and cannot seem to get anything to work for me. I am following a tutorial and trying to push my master branch to heroku a

Answer 1

Summarizing ratrace's answer, the main solution is to add

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')

to settings.py. Where STATIC_ROOT is the destination to where static files are copied and from where they are served when deploying the Django app.