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Hi,
I help beginners a lot on the Unofficial Django Discord, and a very common problem is various problems with static files. I always ask them to install whitenoise obviously, but then I realized that whitenoise doesn't have great error messages for when they have other problems than just "set DEBUG=False" :P
This patch will make the error message much more informative and should help beginners a lot when trying to figure out why their static files don't work.
(This is sort of related to my other work with
django-fastdev
but this specific change made more sense in whitenoise I thought)