Pythonanywhere 'staticfiles' is not a valid tag library: Template library staticfiles not found
django, django-staticfiles, python, pythonanywhere
Solution
It looks like you haven't reloaded your web app since adding the virtualenv activation to your wsgi file, or you're not using the wsgi file that you think you're using. The error location that Django is reporting (/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/template/defaulttags.py) is in the default system Django on PythonAnywhere , not the Django in your virtualenv.
Problem
In pythonanywhere, I'm using virtualenv with Django 1.7 and Python 2.7 Settings.py ``` STATIC_ROOT = '/home/movies/pantherlist/movies/static/' STATIC_URL = '/static/' INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'pantherlist.movies', ) ``` wsgi.py ``` activate_this = '/home/movies/.virtualenvs/django17/bin/activate_this.py' execfile(activate_this, dict(__file__=activate_this)) . .#path setup already done here . from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application application = get_wsgi_application() ``` I am getting error Exception Type: TemplateSyntaxError Exception Value: 'staticfiles' is not a valid tag library: Template library staticfiles not found, tried django.templatetags.staticfiles,django.contrib.admin.templatetags.staticfiles Exception Location: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/template/defaulttags.py in load, line 1054 Error at index.html ``` {% load staticfiles %} ``` Please help. Thanks in advance.