Media files are deleting after every deployment to DO Apps + Django

Hi there @kashifShrimp,

As a new container is generated on each deployment, you would need to implement persistent storage like Spaces.

Then configure your application so that it uploads the media assets to the S3 storage rather than locally on the container itself.

You can follow the steps here on how to implement Spaces with Django:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-object-storage-with-django

Regards, Bobby

@bobbyiliev I created the spaces with a project but now the problem is that deployment is failing due to collect static command being automated. Is there a way to login to Heroku via App console to disable the collect static at Heroku or any other way?

Here is the exact error message.

 directories, files = storage.listdir(location)
File "/app/.heroku/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 316, in listdir
 for entry in os.scandir(path):
 FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/workspace/crmbase/crmbase/static'

 !     Error while running '$ python manage.py collectstatic --noinput'.
 See traceback above for details.

 You may need to update application code to resolve this error.
 Or, you can disable collectstatic for this application:

$ heroku config:set DISABLE_COLLECTSTATIC=1

 https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/django-assets
crm-base-dev | 02:17:16 ERROR: failed to build: exit status 1

@bobbyiliev @kamaln7 Thank you for your help.

I have added the above-mentioned settings media files are now working as expected. However, some static files are working and some are not working like css icons.

P.S: I did run collectstatic on the digital ocean app console.

Updated: Never mind the issue can be solved with adding COR settings on DO Spaces.