Static Files not loading when DEBUG = False

Using Django Deployment
1

I have set

DEBUG = False

and

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    BASE_DIR / "static",
]
STATIC_ROOT = "static_root"

The static files aren’t loading. I want to use the same server for serving static files and not an external one.

Thank you for your time!

2

What server are you using?

3

Uh, I’m running it on localhost with debug false and I ran it on GoDaddy hosting also, sam e result- None of the static files are being explained.

4

Yes, I understand that. What server are you using to run your system? Apache, nginx, gunicorn, uwsgi, what?

6

I’m watching how to deploy from this video: https://youtu.be/kBwhtEIXGII
He created a Procfile for Heroku and has web: gunicorn project.wsgi --log-file -
I don’t know what I need to do for running it on local host and then on GoDaddy hosting.

7

Uh, I got it working… I installed gunicorn and whitenoise like I did for Heroku and then I added whitenoise middleware and it started working???

8

Whitenoise allows your python app to serve the static files. The documentation likely explains it better.

9

could you solve it? I have the same problem, I’m using railway with unicorn