Move containerfile to root

[yenaing-oo]

Regarding https://github.com/NationalCentreTruthReconciliation/Secure-Record-Transfer/issues/190

[yenaing-oo]

The app ran fine in development since static assets were being served directly from their original location without being minified. In production, however, Django couldn't seem to location manage.py:

I looked through the container's files and discovered that the contents of ./bagitobjecttransfer were copied into /app rather than the directory iteself:

I think the Docker's COPY instruction copies the contents of a directory instead of the directory. Here's a similar question on Stackoverflow, but for the ADD instruction.

I changed the part in Containerfile copying sources files to copy files and directory separately, and this seemed to fix issue of manage.py not being found.

The next issue I ran into is that Django keeps trying to serve static assets from app/static rather than app/bagitobjecttransfer/static. (I don't know how to recreate the error logs for this, I got another error instead when going back to this point).

I tried changing every possible setting in base.py to make it serve static files from app/bagitobjecttransfer/static, but nothing seemed to work. The only thing that does work is changing STATIC_ROOT to the app/static.

[danloveg]

Thanks for looking into this, I'll pull your branch and test on my end. I wasn't expecting that the static files would need to be served from elsewhere, so I'll take a look at that too and see if there's any issue using app/static/instead.

[yenaing-oo]

You're absolutely right that the static files need to be at /app/static, that was a good catch. I even built that behaviour into the prod compose file, I must have just forgotten that I had made that decision.

We only need that change in the production configuration, hence why I've asked you to move that change to the base settings file to docker_prod.py.

Ah I think I found the other culprit for this behaviour in ngix.conf. It looks like this is telling the Ngix web server to serve static assets from app/static, whereas the line you mentioned in compose.prod.yml is defining a shared volume between Django and Ngix.