Django eb deploy error message

Question

While I was deploying Django Project to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, I received the following error. Everything works fine on localhost though.

Creating application version archive "app-160505_232739".
Uploading: [##################################################] 100% Done...
INFO: Environment update is starting.                               
INFO: Deploying new version to instance(s).                         
ERROR: [Instance: i-c5493f58] Command failed on instance. Return code: 1 Output: (TRUNCATED)..., level)
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2254, in _gcd_import
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2237, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2224, in _find_and_load_unlocked
ImportError: No module named 'storages'. 
container_command 01_migrate in .ebextensions/03_python.config failed. For more detail, check /var/log/eb-activity.log using console or EB CLI.
INFO: Command execution completed on all instances. Summary: [Successful: 0, Failed: 1].
ERROR: Unsuccessful command execution on instance id(s) 'i-c5493f58'. Aborting the operation.
ERROR: Failed to deploy application.      

.ebextensions/03_python.config file:

01_migrate:
    command: "python mooove_eb/manage.py migrate --noinput"
    leader_only: true
02_collectstatic:
    command: "python mooove_eb/manage.py collectstatic --noinput"
    leader_only: true    

Answer 1

The error message tells that you are missing the storages module. From AWS Elastic Beanstalk documentation:

Elastic Beanstalk uses to requirements.txt to determine which package to install on the EC2 instances that run your application.

You need to create a file named requirements.txt and add the line

storages==<your storages version>

You can run pip freeze to see the version you are using on your development environment.