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I have created a Django app and just deployed it to a server. I use some extra django features such as the django-debug-toolbar which was installed from my requirements.txt file using pip.

When I run my app locally, on localhost, everything works fine and the extra features are loaded successfully.

Here is the right structure of the sources loaded:

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But when I run my app from the server for some reason the paths are not correct.

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And in my browser's console I get these errors:

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All these paths are from the installed packages like the django-debug-toolbar and it wouldn't make sense to change them. For example, the toolbar.js file is loaded with this command: <script src="{% static 'debug_toolbar/js/toolbar.js' %}"></script>

which can be found in the: lib/python2.7/site-packages/debug_toolbar/templates/debug_toolbar/base.html file, which was created after I installed all the packages from my requirements.txt file.

That should work fine. It does work fine when I run it locally, but it doesn't when I run on the new server. Any ideas?

Galil
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  • Have you ran `collectstatic`? you should also try to post textual information as *text* instead of images – Sayse Jan 27 '16 at 11:06
  • Is it necessary to run `collectstatic`? I have copied the settings for `INSTALLED_APPS` and `MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES` and as I said it works fine when I run locally. Also, what textual information would you need for this issue? – Galil Jan 27 '16 at 11:27
  • It works locally because the static folder is the same, so yes `collectstatic` is probably needed. the textual information I refer to is your (relevant) console output – Sayse Jan 27 '16 at 11:37
  • @Sayse Thanks for your help! I ran `collectstatic` and I also made some changes on the paths as the `STATIC_ROOT` directory was not the same with the one set in the nginx conf file. Now it works fine! – Galil Jan 27 '16 at 14:17

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As mentioned in the comments, you need to call collectstatic when you make changes to the static files.

What this command does is copy the static files from their static folders to the location that you specify in your STATIC_ROOT directory, this should be the same as where nginx is looking for files.

The error you received is because those files weren't in the directory your nginx was looking in.

Sayse
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