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The STATICFILES_DIRS setting should not contain the STATIC_ROOT setting

I'm using Django 1.7. When deploying my site to a Production server and running collectstatic, I get following error message:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The STATICFILES_DIRS setting should not contain the STATIC_ROOT setting

I use split settings; my production local.py contains:

STATIC_ROOT = '/home/username/projects/site/static/'

and my base.py contains:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
)
Solution

  • According to the docs, collectstatic will copy the files from various folders into STATIC_ROOT.

    Therefore, you cannot use the STATIC_ROOT folder in STATICFILES_DIRS.

    Solution: change STATIC_ROOT to e.g. STATIC_ROOT = '/home/username/projects/site/assets/'