'Suspicious Operation: Attempted access to “” denied' while loading static files

Question

I\'ve been through the ringer getting my Django app setup on Heroku using Amazon s3 to host the static and media files. I\'ve been following this guide https://www.caktusgr

Answer 1

Sorted! As expected it was something annoyingly simple but perhaps this will help anyone else who hits the same wall.

This:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static '/css/reset.css' %}">

Needed to be this:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'css/reset.css' %}">

I.e. no leading slash in the href. Worked fine using local static files storage but broke the S3 link.