WhiteNoise + Lambda + Zappa

Hello Guys,

We are using Zappa + Django in AWS Lambda. I really like the idea of using whitenoise, at least for serving our Django admin pages, it sounds to me like a simple solution that does not require a lot of configuration (like similar S3 solutions).

I followed the tutorial and tried the following with no avail:

settings.py
-----------
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')

$ zappa manage production collectstatic
...
error stack
...
Read-only file system: '/var/task/staticfiles'

Well makes sense, from what I know the only writeable directory is /tmp so I tried

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = /tmp/staticfiles'
...

$ zappa manage production collectstatic

61 static files copied to '/tmp/staticfiles'.
[END] RequestId: 4b9c1c60-ddc4-11e7-a97d-e193c05b0571
[REPORT] RequestId: 4b9c1c60-ddc4-11e7-a97d-e193c05b0571
Duration: 77.20 ms
Billed Duration: 100 ms
Memory Size: 512 MB
Max Memory Used: 44 MB

When go to my-site.com/admin I’m getting 403 when trying to retrieve the resources which again makes sense.

So what is the correct way to implement it ?

[efimerdlerkravitz]

Using WhiteNoise, Zappa and Django

• Assuming you are using a production profile in zappa_settings.json
• Under settings.py add

STATIC_URL = '/production/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
WHITENOISE_STATIC_PREFIX = '/static/'
STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage'

• Run locally ./manage.py collectstatic
• Run zappa update

[ptrhck]

Did you try your config using the STATIC_HOST with cloudfront as CDN?