title: Django static files not coming through when deployed to Heroku
body: <p>My static files are not coming through when I am deploying to Heroku. It works fine when I running on my local.</p>
  
  <p>Its not a 404 error, on the network tab it seems like its not even requesting the static files at all.</p>
  
  <p>I have followed this solution on Heroku's website: <a href="https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django-assets" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django-assets</a> but still not working.</p>
  
  <p>I looked at other solutions and I am already using WhiteNoise.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the relevant code from my settings.py</p>
  
  <pre><code>import os
  import environ
  import django_heroku 
  
  
  env = environ.Env(
      # set casting, default value
      DEBUG=(bool, False)
  )
  
  environ.Env.read_env()
  
  
  BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
  SETTINGS_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
  
  
  # SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
  SECRET_KEY = env('SECRET_KEY')
  
  # SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
  DEBUG = (env('DEBUG_VALUE') == "True")
  
  # Application definition
  INSTALLED_APPS = [
      'django.contrib.admin',
      'django.contrib.auth',
      'django.contrib.contenttypes',
      'django.contrib.sessions',
      'django.contrib.messages',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles',
  
      #my own apps
      'corsheaders',
      'rest_framework',
      'paintings',
      'storages',
  ]
  
  MIDDLEWARE = [
      'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
      'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
      'corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
  ]
  
  CORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL = True
  
  ROOT_URLCONF = 't_and_b_website.urls'
  
  
  WSGI_APPLICATION = 't_and_b_website.wsgi.application'
  
  
  STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR), 'staticfiles')
  
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  
  STATICFILES_DIRS = [
      os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles'), 
  ]
  
  STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'
  
  #MEDIA_ROOT is for directory for any media that our users upload
  MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR), 'media_cdn')
  MEDIA_URL = '/media_cdn/'
  
  
  CORS_URLS_REGEX = r'^/api.*'
  CORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL = True
  CORS_ORIGIN_WHITELIST = (
      '*',
      'your-domain.com',
      'your-bucket-here.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com',
  )
  
  
  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = env('AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID')
  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = env('AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY')
  AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = env('AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME')
  
  
  AWS_S3_FILE_OVERWRITE = False
  AWS_DEFAULT_ACL = None
  
  
  DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage'
  
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is my wsgi.py</p>
  
  <pre><code>import os
  
  from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
  
  os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "t_and_b_website.settings")
  
  application = get_wsgi_application()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In my Heroku logs gives me this warning, so I am not sure if its picking up my Heroku environment variables:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.6/site-packages/environ/environ.py:630: 
  UserWarning: /app/src/t_and_b_website/.env doesn't exist - 
  if you're not configuring your environment separately, create one.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks so much in advance!</p>