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

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 2

If your environment uses a platform branch based on Amazon Linux 2, the right settings for .config file inside .ebextensions folder

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

Inside your project settings.py you should have:

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

Answer 3

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 4

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 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

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')
...