[Python] The STATICFILES_DIRS setting should not contain the STATIC_ROOT setting

I'm using Django 1.7. When deploying my site to a Production server and running collectstatic, I get following error message:

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The STATICFILES_DIRS setting should not contain the STATIC_ROOT setting
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I use split settings; my production local.py contains:

STATIC_ROOT = '/home/username/projects/site/static/'


and my base.py contains:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'),
)

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