Django Collectstatic in Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Not Working

Question

I have deployed my Django app in amazon elastic beanstalk. However, the css in the django admin is not working. I understand that it's a collectstatic issue. This is what my settings.py looks like:

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

And I have this line in my ebconfig.config file:

container_commands:
  01_collectstatic:
    command: "python manage.py collectstatic --noinput"

However, this is how it looks like once I deploy it in amazon: I have tried seeing the log files in amazon console. I found a line that reads:

EmbeddedPostBuild/postbuild_0_dcape/Command 01_collectstatic] : Starting activity...
.....  
  0 static files copied to '/opt/python/bundle/33/app/static', 102 unmodified.

What do I need to do to make sure it works?

Seems collectstatic already copied necessary files I think without admin. Now can you describe your folder structure — Raja Simon, Jun 07 '17 at 04:28
I have the same problem here. CSS in my main app works fine, however all the paths to the admin's static show 404 on the live server. — Jock, Nov 08 '17 at 11:25
Possible duplicate of [Amazon Elastic Beanstalk not serving django static files](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14043073/amazon-elastic-beanstalk-not-serving-django-static-files) — kichik, Nov 28 '17 at 16:11
Do you have a variable `STATICFILES_DIRS` in your `settings.py` file. — Abhyudai, Nov 15 '19 at 21:54

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 15 '19 at 21:41

I was having the same issue for the longest time. It seems like you have to tell beanstalk where your static folder will be located on the production server.

In your ebconfig.config where you specify commands/container_commands add an option settings so that beanstalk can know what your static_root equates to on the live server.

This is how I do it:

settings.py

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/')

config file

option_settings:
  aws:elasticbeanstalk:application:environment:
    DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: MDGOnline.settings
  "aws:elasticbeanstalk:container:python:staticfiles":
    "static/": "www/static/"

Check out this wonderful AWS Elastic Beanstalk Doc for more detailed info

Django Collectstatic in Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Not Working

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