Editing Deploying a Django app on AWS (section)

=== Deployment ===

Once configured to use S3 for storage, Django's `collectstatic` command will upload static files to the S3 bucket. Both the AWS servers and local development will reference the files on S3.

This means that if a stylesheet is compiled, the `collectstatic` command must be run before the changes are available anywhere.

<syntaxhighlight lang="sh">
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
</syntaxhighlight>

The `--noinput` flag simply bypasses any confirmation messages.

The `static` template tag will correctly reference static resources in the Amazon S3 bucket.

Timestamps don't always correspond between S3 and the local filesystem. In some cases a newly edited file won't register as changed based on its timestamp. In these cases log into the AWS Management Console, navigate to the bucket under S3 and manually delete the file before executing `manage.py`.