Django Heroku not serving static files when Debug=False

Question

I'm hosting my Django application on Heroku and using whitenoise to handle serving static files.

Following is content of settings.py

DEBUG = False

ALLOWED_HOSTS += [
    'example.com',
]

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
    ...
]

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static_my_project')
]

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static_cdn', 'static_root')

But static files are not working.

Setting Debug=True is serving static files but not when Debug=False.

user_3719167 · Answer

Got the solution from a post

Added collectstatic to Procfile

web: python manage.py collectstatic --no-input; gunicorn myapp.wsgi --log-file - --log-level debug

And now every static file is serving including, CSS, js, images and videos.

user_113962 · Answer

The Whitenoise middleware should come after the security middleware and before all other middleware. You are currently adding it to the end.

Django Heroku not serving static files when Debug=False

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