diff --git a/dev/deploy/collectstatics.sh b/dev/deploy/collectstatics.sh
index 3fcc01290..0d1c683de 100644
--- a/dev/deploy/collectstatics.sh
+++ b/dev/deploy/collectstatics.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+cp dev/deploy/settings_local_collectstatics.py ietf/settings_local.py
+
 # Install Python dependencies
 pip --disable-pip-version-check --no-cache-dir install -r requirements.txt
 
diff --git a/dev/deploy/settings_local_collectstatics.py b/dev/deploy/settings_local_collectstatics.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bcbe0cc4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/deploy/settings_local_collectstatics.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# Copyright The IETF Trust 2007-2019, All Rights Reserved
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+from ietf.settings import *                                          # pyflakes:ignore
+
+STATIC_URL = "https://static.ietf.org/dt/%s/"%__version__
+STATIC_ROOT = os.path.abspath(BASE_DIR + "/../static/")