django admin fails with server error (500). While debugging this, I want to run collectstatic, but that also fails:
$ python ./manage.py collectstatic
You have requested to collect static files at the destination location as specified in your settings.
This will overwrite existing files! Are you sure you want to do this?
Type 'yes' to continue, or 'no' to cancel: yes Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./manage.py", line 22, in <module>
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/home/jacopsd/.virtualenvs/django_swingit/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 367, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute() File "/home/jacopsd/.virtualenvs/django_swingit/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 359, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/home/jacopsd/.virtualenvs/django_swingit/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 294, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **cmd_options) File "/home/jacopsd/.virtualenvs/django_swingit/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 345, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options) File "/home/jacopsd/.virtualenvs/django_swingit/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 193, in handle
collected = self.collect() File "/home/jacopsd/.virtualenvs/django_swingit/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 114, in collect
for finder in get_finders(): File "/home/jacopsd/.virtualenvs/django_swingit/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/finders.py", line 264, in get_finders
yield get_finder(finder_path) File "/home/jacopsd/.virtualenvs/django_swingit/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/utils/lru_cache.py", line 100, in wrapper
result = user_function(*args, **kwds) File "/home/jacopsd/.virtualenvs/django_swingit/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/finders.py", line 277, in get_finder
return Finder() File "/home/jacopsd/.virtualenvs/django_swingit/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/finders.py", line 64, in __init__
if settings.STATIC_ROOT and os.path.abspath(settings.STATIC_ROOT) == os.path.abspath(root): File "/home/jacopsd/.virtualenvs/django_swingit/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 367, in abspath
if not isabs(path): File "/home/jacopsd/.virtualenvs/django_swingit/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 61, in isabs
return s.startswith('/') AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'startswith'
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Additional info: My STATIC_ROOT is set in my settings.py file to an empty directory in my home directory. DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is pointing to this settings file.
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