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 manually. In debugging I even checked in a pushed the static files in the static directory to try to simplify things. The mapping seems very strange in that it doesn't seem to follow the STATIC_ROOT.

My relevant configs: settings.py

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__name__))
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT,'static/')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
#    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
)

urls.py

(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.STATIC_ROOT}),

LOGS:

[Wed Dec 26 15:39:04 2012] [error] [client 10.29.203.20] File does not exist: /opt/python/current/app/css, referer 10.29.203.20 - - 
[26/Dec/2012:15:39:04 +0000] "GET /static/css/styles.css HTTP/1.1" 404 329 "http://" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.101 Safari/537.11"

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/