Configuring django-compressor with remote storage (django-storage - amazon s3)

django, django-storage

Solution

I think the only setting you are missing is `COMPRESS_ROOT`.

I have django-compressor working very nicely with S3. Here's my configuration:

DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'g2k_utils.s3storage.S3BotoStorage'
STATICFILES_STORAGE = DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE
COMPRESS_ROOT = '/home/user/website/static/' # Where my SCSS, JS files are stored
COMPRESS_STORAGE = DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE 
COMPRESS_OFFLINE = True

Problem

My scenario I'm using django-storage to have the files served via Amazon S3. This means that when I do ./manage.py collectstatic, the files will be saved on my bucket at amazon and not on the local file system. To compress the files I do: "./manage.py compress" Which gives this error: Error: An error occured during rendering: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/home/user/project/static/less/bootstrap.less' Since the file isn't on my local filesystem. "Due to the way Django Compressor processes files, it requires the files to be processed (in the {% compress %} block) to be available in a local file system cache." http://django_compressor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/remote-storages/ Question How do I make django-compress work with django-storage (amazon s3)? What I've tried to do so far Make collectstatic save files both local and on S3. Since it's mentioned mentioned in the documentation at the django-compressor page, there should be some good way to do it. How? Configuration ``` STATIC_URL = 'http://mybucket.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/' STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR,"static/") STATICFILES_FINDERS = ( 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder', 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder', 'compressor.finders.CompressorFinder', ) STATICFILES_STORAGE = DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = 'index.storage.CachedS3BotoStorage' #defined as it is in the documentation AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = "xxx" AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = "xxx" AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME = "xxxx" COMPRESS_URL = STATIC_URL COMPRESS_OFFLINE = True COMPRESS_PRECOMPILERS = ( ('text/less', 'lessc {infile} {outfile}'), ) ```

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