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

All previous answers didn't help me This works for me.

Basically I created two steps inside .ebextensions

01_django.config

container_commands:
    01_migrate:
        command: "source /opt/python/current/env && source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate && cd /opt/python/current/app && python manage.py migrate --noinput"
        leader_only: true
    02_touch_superuser:
        command: "source /opt/python/current/env && source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate && cd /opt/python/current/app && python manage.py touch_superuser"
        leader_only: true
option_settings:
    aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python:
        WSGIPath: config/wsgi.py
        NumProcesses: 2
        NumThreads: 10
    aws:elasticbeanstalk:application:environment:
        STAGING: 1
        DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: config.settings.production
    aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python:staticfiles:
        "/static/": "htdocs/static/"
        "/media/": "htdocs/media/"

config/wsgi.py Could be a different path in your project

02_collec_static.config

files:
  "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/appdeploy/post/10_collect_static.sh":
    mode: "000755"
    owner: root
    group: root
    content: |
      set -xe

      source /opt/python/current/env
      source /opt/python/run/venv/bin/activate
      cd /opt/python/current/app && python manage.py collectstatic --noinput

      echo "Statics collected...!!"

An important thing, you settings/*.py should match with your static path that EBS serves, in my case this is my config.

...
PROJECT_PATH = dirname(dirname(dirname(__file__)))
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'htdocs/media')
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, 'htdocs/static')
...