Collectstatic - permission denied, pythonanywhere bash terminal

Question

I'm trying to use the collectstatic command in pythonanywhere's bash terminal:

python manage.py collectstatic

But I get:

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/static'

Please can anyone help? I've been trying to fix this for two days now.

Here's the full error :

nomadpad-virtualenv) 11:51 ~/nomadpad (master)$ python manage.py collectstatic Copying '/home/DMells123/.virtualenvs/nomadpad-virtualenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/djang o/contrib/admin/static/admin/img/inline-delete.svg' Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 22, in execute_from_command_line(sys.argv) File "/home/DMells123/.virtualenvs/nomadpad-virtualenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django /core/management/init.py", line 364, in execute_from_command_line utility.execute() File "/home/DMells123/.virtualenvs/nomadpad-virtualenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django /core/management/init.py", line 356, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/home/DMells123/.virtualenvs/nomadpad-virtualenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django /core/management/base.py", line 283, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args, cmd_options) File "/home/DMells123/.virtualenvs/nomadpad-virtualenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django /core/management/base.py", line 330, in execute output = self.handle(*args, options) File "/home/DMells123/.virtualenvs/nomadpad-virtualenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django /contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 199, in handle collected = self.collect() File "/home/DMells123/.virtualenvs/nomadpad-virtualenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django /contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 124, in collect handler(path, prefixed_path, storage) File "/home/DMells123/.virtualenvs/nomadpad-virtualenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django /contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 364, in copy_file self.storage.save(prefixed_path, source_file) File "/home/DMells123/.virtualenvs/nomadpad-virtualenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django /core/files/storage.py", line 54, in save return self._save(name, content) File "/home/DMells123/.virtualenvs/nomadpad-virtualenv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django /core/files/storage.py", line 321, in _save os.makedirs(directory) File "/home/DMells123/.virtualenvs/nomadpad-virtualenv/lib/python3.6/os.py", line 210, in makedirs makedirs(head, mode, exist_ok) File "/home/DMells123/.virtualenvs/nomadpad-virtualenv/lib/python3.6/os.py", line 210, in makedirs makedirs(head, mode, exist_ok) File "/home/DMells123/.virtualenvs/nomadpad-virtualenv/lib/python3.6/os.py", line 220, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/static'

Static Settings

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
TEMPLATE_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')
STATIC_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
STATICFILES_DIRS = [STATIC_DIR, ]
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
MEDIA_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'posts/media')
MEDIA_ROOT = MEDIA_DIR
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

Looks like your static dir is set to the root of the filesystem (/static) - most OS's aren't going to let you create a directory there without escalated privileges. Set it to a path you do have write access to... (it might be you just don't want the / there) — Jon Clements♦
Please post your full STATIC_* settings. I suspect you are confused between STATIC_ROOT and STATIC_URL. — Daniel Roseman
@DanielRoseman thank you Daniel - I've actually just fixed it I believe. I was missing a bit from the static root, it should have been posts/static. — ML_Engine

ML_Engine ML_Engine · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-17T14:17:45

6

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I was missing a bit from the STATIC_ROOT, it should have been posts/static.

Collectstatic - permission denied, pythonanywhere bash terminal

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