Why does setting debug to false in django settings stop Heroku app from loading in development and production?

Question

In my settings i have set DEBUG=False but this instead generated a 500 Error in both dev and production. so i looked around and came across this (Setting DEBUG

Answer 1

did you try

python manage.py collecstatic

?

you should review files directory becuase in prodhuction static files directory changes. heroku uses whitenouse