From time to time, I run into a problem that only occurs in a production-like Django setup (DEBUG off, running under gunicorn, static asset compression in play, and so on).
Debugging such issues on a staging system can be time-consuming. Sometimes, there is no alternative. But often, it's easier to debug locally with a pseudo-production setup.
In one shell:
./manage.py collectstatic --noinput
cd static_root
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8001
In another shell:
cd media_root
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8002
Third shell:
DEBUG=False STATIC_URL='http://localhost:8001/' MEDIA_URL='http://localhost:8002/' gunicorn myproject.wsgi
This assumes you read these Django settings from environment variables (you probably should), and that you're using gunicorn and have it installed into your virtualenv.