Amazon Elastic Beanstalk not serving django static files

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

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/"