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collectstatic throws 'OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:' on dotcloud

As instructed in the dotcloud tutorial, this is the code in my postinstall: 

#!/bin/sh  
python createdb.py  
python some_project/manage.py syncdb --noinput
python mkadmin.py
mkdir -p /home/dotcloud/data/media /home/dotcloud/volatile/static
ln -sf /home/dotcloud/volatile/static /home/dotcloud/static
python some_project/manage.py collectstatic --noinput

...nginx.conf 

location /media/ { root /home/dotcloud/data ; }

...and settings.py 

....
MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/dotcloud/data/media/'

MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

STATIC_ROOT = '/home/dotcloud/volatile/static/'

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

....

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    'django.contrib.admin',
    # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation:
    # 'django.contrib.admindocs',
    'some_project',
)

When postinstall is run, this error is thrown:
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/dotcloud/rsync-1346498181296/some_project/static'

I've been on it for a long time and its confusing because the documentation says /static/ is already setup by the python service and links to /home/dotcloud/static

Can someone assist? Everything worked well until I got to setting up the app for static content. Django version is 1.4.1 on Python 2.7

Solution

  • After getting some sleep, I discovered that my 'static' folder was not in the location I specified in my 'settings.py' file.

    Also, dotCloud has updated their documentation to warn that '/static/' is no longer automatically created as earlier stated so I changed my postinstall script to remove the symlink to '/static/' and also adjusted the nginx.conf file as instructed in the updated documentation.

    Reference:
    Handlinng static files on dotCloud