How to serve static files to AWS when deploying Django app (`python manage.py collectstatic` didn't work)?

Question

Yesterday, I created this post: DjangoRestFramework browsable api looks different locally vs when deployed on server?

Basically, when I did python manage.py ru

Answer 1

This is what worked for me.

Remove any staticfiles directives from .config files. Find Static Files section under the Software Configuration. The left column is each of your /static/ url. The right is your static folder relative to your parent directory.

Make sure your STATIC_ROOT setting matches the value on the right. Don't forget the trailing /.

Pasting my settings anyway.

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

And this is what my folder structure looks like relative to the settings files

project/
├── __init__.py
├── settings
│   ├── base.py
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── local.py
│   ├── production.py

wsgi.py, urls.py are located in project folder. www folder is one level above project folder.

Hope this saves your Sunday at least.