Hello… I’m having a small issue where my static files aren’t available(loading

404

) when I run a shell script (

shell_sources

) that among other things executes

collectstatic

This is only happening when I run the docker version. Here’s how the

Dockerfile

looks like

FROM python:3.10-slim

### Arg
ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

### Env
ENV APP_HOST=.
ENV APP_DOCKER=/app
ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1

COPY twoops_tracker.py/main.pex /bin/dj

# Expose server port
EXPOSE 8000

### Volumes
WORKDIR ${APP_DOCKER}
RUN mkdir -p media staticfiles logs

COPY twoops_tracker/sh/*.sh /
RUN chmod +x /cmd.sh

### Run app
CMD ["/cmd.sh"]

I’ve also noticed that the files are being saved under

/root/.pex/user_code/a517e67b58e274b35127ae63804115e6156bfe3d/staticfiles

which I think is the reason why they can’t be found. Any ideas on how I can solve this?

Hi - to be sure I understand the context, it sounds like you have a Django app you’re building into

main.pex

with some version of Pants, and then running it in a container?

exactly

And what do the targets that wrap the static files look like?

not sure I fully understand. What do you mean wrap static files?

Your static files are in the repo and presumably are the

sources

of a

resources

or

files

target? How are they getting into the pex?

I see. We aren’t adding them to them to the pex. They’re being generated when the container first starts. I guess that’s why they’re being placed in that ‘random’ location.

Interesting!

They don’t live in the repo. But yeah it’s css, javascript e.t.c

Aha! Glad that got sorted out

They are basically from Django but also any app e.g Django rest framework also have its static files. While running on a development server, Django is responsible for directly serving the files but on production it’s not recommended and that’s why we need to run the

collectstatic

command in order to have all static files from different apps into one location. From there we just configure Nginx or any webserver to respond to

/static

request with files from the location where

collectstatic

saved the files. Just to note, for our case we store the files in S3 but we still wanted to be able to run the docker image locally without having to use the s3 files.

Ah yes, I get all that, but

collectstatic

typically collects the static files from your source tree.

good question but I’m not sure. Does the generated

pex

file include the

django

static files?

That’s what I’m asking 🙂 You probably want it to…

yes. Right now it’s collecting them from my source tree