Digitalocean APP for Django not update static

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I follow this tutorial ( https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-django-to-app-platform ) and deploy successfully my django with all the static files. Yesterday I push some changes with the static files (add some color and other stuff done in the scss) but I can’t find the change online.

Any idea?

Bobby · Accepted Answer

Hi there, A few things to check here, most likely one of these is the culprit. First, make sure your SCSS is actually being compiled to CSS before you push. App Platform does not run a build step for SCSS automatically unless you have configured one. If you are relying on a local compile step, double check that the compiled CSS file is committed and pushed to your repo, not just the SCSS source. Second, check whether collectstatic is running on each deploy. The tutorial sets this up as a run command, but it is worth confirming it is still in your App Platform settings under your app’s run command or build command. You can verify this in the deploy logs in the App Platform console. Third, browser caching is the most common reason changes do not show up. Do a hard refresh with Ctrl+Shift+R or open in an incognito window to rule this out before digging deeper. If static files are being served from DigitalOcean Spaces as per the tutorial, also check that the files in your Space actually updated after the last deploy. You can browse the bucket directly in the Spaces console to confirm the new CSS is there. A quick way to confirm which file is being served: curl -I https://your-spaces-url/static/your-file.css Check the Last-Modified header to see if it matches your latest deploy.

davidwarner Warner · Answer

Check that your SCSS was compiled and collectstatic ran during deployment. If everything looks correct, it’s likely browser or CDN caching—try a hard refresh or invalidate the cache.

alexdo · Answer

Worth adding the actual fix that stops this from recurring on every future deploy. Browser caching is the immediate cause, but the reason it keeps happening is that your compiled CSS file keeps the same filename across deploys, so browsers and any CDN have no signal the content changed. The standard fix is cache-busting via hashed filenames, WhiteNoise’s ManifestStaticFilesStorage appends a content hash to each static file’s name on collectstatic, so css/base.css becomes css/base.e352ca3230fc.css. When the file changes, the hash changes, and the browser fetches the new one automatically, no more manual hard refreshes. STORAGES = { "staticfiles": { "BACKEND": "whitenoise.storage.CompressedManifestStaticFilesStorage", }, } Once that’s in place, you can also safely set a long Cache-Control max-age on static assets, since the filename itself changes whenever content does. Regards

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