This is another article which has a focus on how to solve an error message exist while executing the command ‘python manage.py collectstatic’. Actually, there is a definition of a specific context of ‘whitenoise’ in the settings.py file. It exist in the file of ‘settings.py’. The definition for the context exist as follows :
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.django.GzipManifestStaticFilesStorage'
The above source code definition is useful in order to load static file like ‘css’, ‘js’ or ‘images’ in the Django-based application. Actually, the impact of the above definition exist after executing the command of ‘python manage.py collectstatic’.
(env) user@hostname:~/python/django/todoproject$ python manage.py collectstatic Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 21, in main() File "manage.py", line 17, in main execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/home/user/python/django/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 381, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/home/user/python/django/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 375, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/home/user/python/django/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 323, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args, **cmd_options) File "/home/user/python/django/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 364, in execute output = self.handle(*args, **options) File "/home/user/python/django/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 162, in handle if self.is_local_storage() and self.storage.location: File "/home/user/python/django/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 216, in is_local_storage return isinstance(self.storage, FileSystemStorage) File "/home/user/python/django/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 256, in inner self._setup() File "/home/user/python/django/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/storage.py", line 498, in _setup self._wrapped = get_storage_class(settings.STATICFILES_STORAGE)() File "/home/user/python/django/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 358, in get_storage_class return import_string(import_path or settings.DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE) File "/home/user/python/django/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/module_loading.py", line 17, in import_string module = import_module(module_path) File "/home/user/python/django/env/lib/python3.7/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "", line 1006, in _gcd_import File "", line 983, in _find_and_load File "", line 953, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed File "", line 1006, in _gcd_import File "", line 983, in _find_and_load File "", line 965, in _find_and_load_unlocked ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'whitenoise' (env) user@hostname:~/python/django/todoproject$
The solution for the above error message is definitely simple. It is because the information is already exist in the error message. It is because there is no module with the name of ‘whitenoise’. So, solving the problem is just installing that module. Below is the step for installing the module to solve the problem :
1Just install the suitable module by executing the following command :
(env) user@hostname:~/python/django/todoproject$ pip install whitenoise Collecting whitenoise Downloading whitenoise-5.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (20 kB) Installing collected packages: whitenoise Successfully installed whitenoise-5.0.1 (env) user@hostname:~/python/django/todoproject$
Actually, if there is no other requirement and everything is running well. The execution of the ‘python manage.py collectstatic’ will be a success. Below is the execution of the command if it is a success :
(env) user@hostname:~/python/django/todoproject$ python manage.py collectstatic 119 static files copied to '/home/user/python/django/todoproject/todoproject/static'. (env) user@hostname:~/python/django/todoproject$ python manage.py runserver Watching for file changes with StatReloader Performing system checks... System check identified no issues (0 silenced). March 15, 2020 - 09:07:23 Django version 2.2.6, using settings 'todoproject.settings' Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
Thanks a lot, hours passed, I turn around the issue. after whitenoise setup it works !!