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 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 !

Answer 2

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/"