Amazon Elastic Beanstalk not serving django static

Question

I am trying to put up a simple django app on elastic beanstalk. I thought I had the static parts of the app figured out as it works with heroku and on a server that was set up manually. In debugging I even checked in a pushed the static files in the static directory to try to simplify things. The mapping seems very strange in that it doesn't seem to follow the STATIC_ROOT.

My relevant configs: settings.py

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__name__))
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT,'static/')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
#    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
)

urls.py

(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT}),

LOGS:

[Wed Dec 26 15:39:04 2012] [error] [client 10.29.203.20] File does not exist: /opt/python/current/app/css, referer 10.29.203.20 - - 
[26/Dec/2012:15:39:04 +0000] "GET /static/css/styles.css HTTP/1.1" 404 329 "http://" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.101 Safari/537.11"

Answer 1

For me, the problem was having

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'static')

Instead, I changed it to

STATIC_ROOT = 'static'

Also, my .conf file has

option_settings:
  "aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python:staticfiles":
    "/static/": "static/"

Answer 2

To support multiple apps and do this you need to run collectstatic

Settings.py

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")

Make sure you have a folder called "static" in your root

In your ebs config file eg. (02_python.config or similar)

option_settings:
    ...
    "aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python:staticfiles":
        /static/: "static/"

Then before you upload to ebs run python manage.py collectstatic

This collects all the static files in one folder which you have already pointed to in your config.

Then you can run eb deploy like normal

Opptionally if you don't want to commit the static files to your source control twice and want the server to do this for you add this to your config

container_commands:
01_collectstatic:
    command: "source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate && python manage.py collectstatic --noinput"

So your file should look something like this:

container_commands:
01_collectstatic:
  command: "source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate && python manage.py collectstatic --noinput"


option_settings:
    "aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python":
      WSGIPath: app/wsgi.py
    "aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python:staticfiles":
      /static/: "static/"

This will run collect static for you when you run eb deploy

Answer 3

Have you found the solution yet? just to let you know. I came across the same problem today, and I realized that I forgot this option in the .ebextensions/.config file. make sure you have it too

option_settings:
  - namespace: aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python:staticfiles
    option_name: /static/
    value: static/

Answer 4

I did the following to fix static path in beanstalk

STATIC_URL = '/static/'

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')

option_settings:
  ...
  ...
  "aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python:staticfiles":
    "/static/": "static/"

Answer 5

Just so you guys know, namespace for static files in recent versions of EBS, changed to aws:elasticbeanstalk:environment:proxy:staticfiles, like this:

option_settings:
  aws:elasticbeanstalk:environment:proxy:staticfiles:
    /static: static

Answer 6

I struggled for quite a while on that, thinking that the issue was with :

option_settings:
  "aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python:staticfiles":
    "/static/": "static/"

But actually my issue was with the other commands in the xxx.config file. basicaly, make sure the other lines are correct.

If you want to know my personal setup, I used the settings file shown above and I added the static directory in the root of my project. For the settings.py file here is what I had for the static_url and root :

# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = 'static'

Hope it helps !