Amazon S3 for django in production

Question

I am using django-s3-folder-storage for my static and media files storage. I followed all the instructions mentioned in the documentation, but still I am not able to serve my static files. I am able to serve my user uploaded files, but the static files are not displayed on the website even after running collectstatic command, which copied the files to the bucket. I haven't created any CNAME records in my domain (not sure whether this makes any difference as I am able to see user uploaded images).

My settings file:

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 's3_folder_storage.s3.DefaultStorage'
DEFAULT_S3_PATH = "media"
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 's3_folder_storage.s3.StaticStorage'
STATIC_S3_PATH = "static"
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = # omitted
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = # omitted
AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = # omitted

MEDIA_ROOT = '/%s/' % DEFAULT_S3_PATH
MEDIA_URL = '//s3.amazonaws.com/%s/media/' % AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME
STATIC_ROOT = "/%s/" % STATIC_S3_PATH
STATIC_URL = '//s3.amazonaws.com/%s/static/' % AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = STATIC_URL + 'admin/'

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
       root('static'),
)

And my project directory:

website_name
    static
    website_name
      settings.py

Answer 1

I have changed the STATIC_URL to like below and it is working fine now.

STATIC_URL = '//bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com/static/'

But MEDIA_URL is like mentioned in the documentation itself and MEDIA_URL works fine. It is only STATIC_URL which needs modifying.

Looks like the documentation is wrong.

Answer 2

Generally S3 can use either the subdomain or subfolder path format. The default for django-storages, which is used by this particular storage, is subdomain. So it's interesting that changing to subfolder solved the problem. The OP mentions using the European region in a different question, and I suspect the root problem here has to do with the endpoint being used, or one of S3/S3BotoStorage's region-affecting configuration settings (e.g. AWS_CALLING_FORMAT).