python - Django collectstatic no such file or directory -

in django 1.7 collectstatic throws exception me:

oserror: [errno 2] no such file or directory: '/static' 

i've performed lot of collectstatic-calls , worked fine, today have issue.

settings.py

base_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) installed_apps = (     'django.contrib.admin',     'django.contrib.auth',     'django.contrib.contenttypes',     'django.contrib.sessions',     'django.contrib.messages',     'django.contrib.staticfiles',      'fxblog',     'rest_framework', )  static_url = '/static/' static_root = os.path.join(base_dir, static_url.strip("/"))  staticfiles_dirs = (     '/static/',     '/upload/', ) 

base_dir correct, checked it. directory base_dir/static/ exists , static files there.

traceback:

traceback (most recent call last):   file "../manage.py", line 10, in <module>     execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)   file "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 399, in execute_from_command_line     utility.execute()   file "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 392, in execute     self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)   file "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 242, in run_from_argv     self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)   file "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 285, in execute     output = self.handle(*args, **options)   file "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 415, in handle     return self.handle_noargs(**options)   file "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 173, in handle_noargs     collected = self.collect()   file "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 103, in collect     path, storage in finder.list(self.ignore_patterns):   file "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/finders.py", line 106, in list     path in utils.get_files(storage, ignore_patterns):   file "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/utils.py", line 25, in get_files     directories, files = storage.listdir(location)   file "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 249, in listdir     entry in os.listdir(path): oserror: [errno 2] no such file or directory: '/static' 

any suggestions?

files in staticfiles_dirs need have absolute path. use normpath.

staticfiles_dirs = (     normpath(join(base_dir, 'static')),     normpath(join(base_dir, 'upload')), ) 

also set static_root like

static_root = normpath(join(base_dir, 'assets')) 

and static_url

static_url = '/static/'