Some Static URLs are malformed (missing location part) for some libraries.

[KaivG]

Edit (Fix found): I found the solution to get it working. I was missing AWS_LOCATION = STATIC_LOCATION. Adding that line made the static path work correctly for all libraries. It seems a bit confusing however, as AWS_LOCATION to me sounds like a generic location, not just for static files. However, now the static and media paths are both working. I would rather have thought that specifying the location in STORAGES should be sufficient, or that AWS_LOCATION should be a generic path that is applied for all data stored including media files. If this is all expected behavior, it may help to clarify this in the docs.

Original issue:
This issue seems to be related to other ones, but I haven't seen this specific problem raised.

I have the following config to use an s3 for static and media files with cloudfront in django 4.2:

CLOUDFRONT_DOMAIN = os.environ.get("CLOUDFRONT_DOMAIN")
APP_VERSION = "1-0"
STATIC_LOCATION = "static/" + APP_VERSION
STATIC_URL = f'https://{CLOUDFRONT_DOMAIN}/{STATIC_LOCATION}/'

PUBLIC_MEDIA_LOCATION = "media"
MEDIA_URL = f"{CLOUDFRONT_DOMAIN}/{PUBLIC_MEDIA_LOCATION}/"

AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = os.environ.get("AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME")
AWS_S3_CUSTOM_DOMAIN = CLOUDFRONT_DOMAIN
AWS_S3_REGION_NAME = 'af-south-1'

STORAGES = {
"default": {
"BACKEND": "storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage",
"OPTIONS": {
"location": "media",
},
},
"staticfiles": {
"BACKEND": "storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage",
"OPTIONS": {
"location": STATIC_LOCATION,
},
},
}

What works:

• Collectstatic puts the files in the right place on s3.
• Some static files are correctly served with the correct url e.g. https://cdn.mycdn.com/static/1-0/debug_toolbar/css/print.css

What doesn't work:

• Some libraries like the django admin and restframework don't form the static urls correctly and are trying to access the static files at the root of the CDN, not using the /static/1-0/ path: https://cdn.mycdn.com/admin/css/nav_sidebar.css and are failing accordingly.

I would very much appreciate a fix or work-around, as this is currently preventing me from using s3 for static files.

[jschneier]

The solution seems to indicate that the way BaseStorage handles settings is buggy, can you try to confirm that?

[jschneier]

Do you have staticfiles in your INSTALLED_APPS?

https://github.com/django/django/blob/85c154da2f07485a1cdc4d886eee4c1a1ef56137/django/templatetags/static.py#L126-L129

[jschneier]

Can you share a bit more details? I strongly suspect you are hitting the comment on this bug that was fixed. In short, are you on 4.2.5+ and also do you have another package that hasn't transitioned to the new STORAGES setting?

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/34773#comment:3