Thanks for looking into it! I finally figured it out this morning. Just like you said, the issue was related to how the static and media directories were set up. Whitenoise was set up exactly as directed (and works seamlessly). What I ended up doing was deleting all the images from all the static and media folders, modified the path in settings. The app works, though I don't know why. I posted on Stackoverflow hoping to get some explanation, as I've never understood completely how to set up static files aside from copy and paste. So this is my chance to get it sorted it out.
Thanks for looking into it! I finally figured it out this morning. Just like you said, the issue was related to how the static and media directories were set up. Whitenoise was set up exactly as directed (and works seamlessly). What I ended up doing was deleting all the images from all the static and media folders, modified the path in settings. The app works, though I don't know why. I posted on Stackoverflow hoping to get some explanation, as I've never understood completely how to set up static files aside from copy and paste. So this is my chance to get it sorted it out.
ahh gotcha. Yup, I remember I actually tried to answer it on there too :)