From 0576e8ca5357fec5352203fdeb8297ace29cc987 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rushil Umaretiya <2023rumareti@tjhsst.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 04:40:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] added whitenoise support for staticfiles

---
 .gitignore         | 4 +++-
 config/settings.py | 4 ++--
 requirements.txt   | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e4e9202..3d0395b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-led / optimized / DLL files
+#led / optimized / DLL files
 __pycache__/
 *.py[cod]
 *$py.class
 secrets.py
 static_files
 .idea/
+.vscode/
 
 # C extensions
 *.so
@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ local_settings.py
 db.sqlite3
 db.sqlite3-journal
 
+
 # Flask stuff:
 instance/
 .webassets-cache
diff --git a/config/settings.py b/config/settings.py
index efc70d6..25d8ec0 100644
--- a/config/settings.py
+++ b/config/settings.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
+    'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
@@ -124,5 +125,4 @@ USE_TZ = True
 STATIC_URL = '/static/'
 
 import os
-STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static_files')
-STATICFILES_DIRS = [BASE_DIR / "static"]
\ No newline at end of file
+STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 40ec83f..c408542 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Django==3.1.2
 django-extensions==3.0.9
 django-secrets==1.0.2
 future==0.18.2
+gunicorn==20.0.4
 idna==2.10
 notion==0.0.25
 python-slugify==4.0.1
@@ -21,3 +22,4 @@ sqlparse==0.4.1
 text-unidecode==1.3
 tzlocal==2.1
 urllib3==1.25.11
+whitenoise==5.2.0