id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 15094 Convert STATICFILES_DIRS into a tuple if set as string Elmar Athmer nobody "Hi If you mistakenly set STATICFILES_DIRS as a string instead of a tuple (e.g. forgot the comma), findstatic et al raise an exception like {{{ ValueError: The joined path (/css/main.css) is located outside of the base path component (/) }}} which is not very enlightening in this case. Django core solves this for INSTALLED_APPS and TEMPLATE_DIRS nicely in {{{ django/conf/__init__.py }}} line 93ff. " closed contrib.staticfiles dev fixed Accepted 1 0 0 0 0 0