Static files not served in StaticLiveServerTestCase

[pupeno]

First, I'm aware of issue #66 but the problem I'm experiencing doesn't get fixed by running collectstatic.

I'm doing all of these experiments on a minimal Django 2.1.3 project with a fresh app, running on Python 3.7 and using whitenoise 4.1.1:

Django==2.1.3
psycopg2==2.7.6.1
pytz==2018.7
selenium==3.141.0
urllib3==1.24.1
whitenoise==4.1.1

The starting settings are:

DEBUG=True
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")

and at that point the tests look good. The test itself looks like this:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib.staticfiles.testing import StaticLiveServerTestCase
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys


class TestImportCRMData(StaticLiveServerTestCase):
    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls):
        super().setUpClass()
        cls.webdriver = webdriver.Chrome()
        cls.webdriver.implicitly_wait(10)

    @classmethod
    def tearDownClass(cls):
        cls.webdriver.close()
        cls.webdriver.quit()
        super().tearDownClass()

    def setUp(self):
        self.admin = User.objects.create_superuser(username="username", password="password",
                                                   email="example@example.com")

    def test_navigate_to_import_crm_data(self):
        self.webdriver.get(f"{self.live_server_url}/admin")
        self.webdriver.find_element_by_id("id_username").send_keys("username")
        self.webdriver.find_element_by_id("id_password").send_keys("password")
        self.webdriver.find_element_by_id("id_password").send_keys(Keys.RETURN)
        self.webdriver.find_element_by_link_text("Users").click()

which should run in any application with the stock Django admin. When I add the app:

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
    # ...
]

and:

STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'

and I run the test, I get

Server Error (500)

on the browser and

UserWarning: No directory at: C:\Users\pupeno\Temporary\untitled\static\
  warnings.warn(u'No directory at: {}'.format(root))

on the terminal. Even with DEBUG set to True. If I run collectstatic , then the test run, but all the static file URL return a 404.

I tried setting DEBUG to False and the behavior was exactly the same.

[evansd]

If you just use LiveServerTestCase instead of StaticLiveServerTestCase it should all work.

[pupeno]

That works and makes sense. Would you like me to add this information to the docs?

[evansd]

Great, glad to hear it! Thanks for the offer, but I need to do some work on the docs anyway so I should just add a note on this myself.