Supposed to covert STATIC_ROOT to str not STATIC_URL.

Author: GrahamDumpleton

docs/release-notes/version-5.0.3.rst

@@ -12,6 +12,6 @@ Features Changed
 * Django community has started adopting use of `pathlib` module when defining
   paths in the Django settings file. This would cause issues for the
   `runmodwsgi` management command for Django as it expected strings for
-  `STATIC_URL` setting. The code has been updated to always convert `STATIC_URL`
-  to a string in `runmodwsgi` to cope with people using `pathlib` module in
-  their Django settings file.
+  `STATIC_ROOT` setting. The code has been updated to always convert
+  `STATIC_ROOT` to a string in `runmodwsgi` to cope with people using `pathlib`
+  module in their Django settings file.

src/server/management/commands/runmodwsgi.py

@@ -110,9 +110,10 @@ def handle(self, *args, **options):
 
             if 'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware' not in middleware:
                 static_url = str(settings.STATIC_URL or "")
+                static_root = str(settings.STATIC_ROOT or "")
 
                 if static_url and static_url.startswith('/'):
-                    if settings.STATIC_ROOT:
+                    if static_root:
                         # We need a fiddle here as depending on the Python
                         # version used, the list of URL aliases we are
                         # passed could be either list of tuples or list of
@@ -122,11 +123,11 @@ def handle(self, *args, **options):
                         if not url_aliases:
                             url_aliases.insert(0, (
                                     static_url.rstrip('/') or '/',
-                                    settings.STATIC_ROOT))
+                                    static_root))
                         else:
                             url_aliases.insert(0, type(url_aliases[0])((
                                     static_url.rstrip('/') or '/',
-                                    settings.STATIC_ROOT)))
+                                    static_root)))
 
         except AttributeError:
             pass