Django on Heroku - Broken Admin Static Files

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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 instructions fails to include the static files required for Django's admin to function. I can change the Procfile to "manage.py run_gunicorn" for local development, but that doesn't fly on Heroku. I've searched all over for a fix - is there some way to include the admin static files without throwing them on S3 with my other static files?

Accepted Answer

If you use runserver and configure your app with DEBUG=True, then it will serve the admin files just like on your development machine. However, this is definitely not the recommended way to do it, and I would suggest that you put them on S3.

Using the django-storages app it's very easy to configure collectstatic to automatically push all the admin files to S3. You can find directions here

Django on Heroku - Broken Admin Static Files

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