How to configure django-compressor and django-staticfiles with Amazon's S3?

Question

I\'m trying to setup django-compressor and django-staticfiles so that the compressed CSS/Javascript and images are served from Amazon\'s S3.

I\'ve managed to setup stati

Answer 1

Your settings look correct. You should keep both STATICFILES_STORAGE and COMPRESS_STORAGE set to storage.CachedS3BotoStorage though and not switch back to storages.backends.s3boto.S3BotoStorage.

According to this django-compressor issue, the problem is with the way django-staticfiles saves during the collectstatic process (using shutil.copy2). This issue has been corrected in the newer version of django-staticfiles, which can be used instead of the one that ships with Django 1.3.

pip install django-staticfiles==dev

And in your settings.py, switch to the updated version:

STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    #"django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder",
    #"django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder",
    "staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder",
    "staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder",
    "compressor.finders.CompressorFinder",
)

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    #'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'staticfiles',
    #...
)

After running python manage.py collectstatic again, both the CACHE directory from django-compressor and the collected staticfiles files should show up on S3.