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AI-generatedSTATIC_ROOT path mismatch in production-ready Django deployments
In Django, the development server automatically serves static files when DEBUG is set to True. However, when transitioning to a production environment, the framework relies on the collectstatic command to aggregate assets into a physical directory defined by STATIC_ROOT . A common discrepancy arises when STATIC_ROOT is correctly configured in settings but th
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