After deploying on a server on digital ocean using nginx, gunicorn, django, and virtualenv, I try to use collectstatic:
python manage.py collectstatic --settings=config.settings.production
As you can see I have multiple setting files. One base, one local and one production setting file. Below is the error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 22, in <module>
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/home/tony/vp/vpenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 363, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/home/tony/vp/vpenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 355, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/home/tony/vp/vpenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 283, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
File "/home/tony/vp/vpenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 330, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File "/home/tony/vp/vpenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 173, in handle
if self.is_local_storage() and self.storage.location:
File "/home/tony/vp/vpenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 239, in inner
return func(self._wrapped, *args)
File "/home/tony/vp/vpenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 35, in __get__
res = instance.__dict__[self.name] = self.func(instance)
File "/home/tony/vp/vpenv/lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 283, in location
return abspathu(self.base_location)
File "/home/tony/vp/vpenv/lib/python3.5/posixpath.py", line 357, in abspath
if not isabs(path):
File "/home/tony/vp/vpenv/lib/python3.5/posixpath.py", line 64, in isabs
return s.startswith(sep)
AttributeError: 'PosixPath' object has no attribute 'startswith'
my production.py
settings file contains the following:
MEDIA_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'media'
MEDIA_URL = 'media/'
STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'static'
my base dir is as follows (imported from the base setting file):
BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent.parent
What could be the cause?
You're using Python 3.5. Support for Path objects in the os module was added in Python 3.6. You can:
either upgrade to Python 3.6; or
avoid using Path objects:
BASE_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(__file__, '../../../'))
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')