Deploy static assets to heroku from local machine - can't open file 'manage.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Question

I am trying deploy my assets files to heroku and I get this output in my command line interface:

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Answer 1

Have you properly defined:

STATICFILES_DIRS

Inside your settings.py?

Have you created it locally and added it to git (as empty directory...). The trace you have indicates that this folder is missing. I have created a simple project with the following settings:

~/Software/h/hrku $ tail hrku/settings.py 
USE_TZ = True


# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATIC_ROOT = '/var/www/dj'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), '..', 'static'),)

As you can see the STATICFILES_DIRS contains only one directory, which does not exist:

~/Software/h/hrku $ ls -l /home/ozn/Software/h/hrku/static
ls: cannot access /home/ozn/Software/h/hrku/static: No such file or directory

The command collectstatic fails:

~/Software/h/hrku $ python manage.py collectstatic

You have requested to collect static files at the destination
location as specified in your settings:

    /var/www/dj

This will overwrite existing files!
Are you sure you want to do this?

Type 'yes' to continue, or 'no' to cancel: yes
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 10, in 
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/home/ozn/.virtualenvs/h/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 353, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/home/ozn/.virtualenvs/h/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 345, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/home/ozn/.virtualenvs/h/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 348, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "/home/ozn/.virtualenvs/h/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 399, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/home/ozn/.virtualenvs/h/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 176, in handle
    collected = self.collect()
  File "/home/ozn/.virtualenvs/h/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 98, in collect
    for path, storage in finder.list(self.ignore_patterns):
  File "/home/ozn/.virtualenvs/h/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/finders.py", line 112, in list
    for path in utils.get_files(storage, ignore_patterns):
  File "/home/ozn/.virtualenvs/h/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/utils.py", line 28, in get_files
    directories, files = storage.listdir(location)
  File "/home/ozn/.virtualenvs/h/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 299, in listdir
    for entry in os.listdir(path):
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/ozn/Software/h/hrku/static'

I hope this will lead you to solving your problem.