Django Storages problem

Using Django Mystery Errors
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I am trying to use S3 for static files and I am getting this error.

django.core.files.storage.handler.InvalidStorageError: Could not find backend 'storages.backends.s3.S3Storage': No module named 'storages.backends'

My settings.py has storages set this way.

STORAGES = {
     "staticfiles": {"BACKEND": "storages.backends.s3.S3Storage"},
 }

I have ‘storages’ in my list of apps, and am running the following versions:
Python 3.12.3
Django 5.1
boto3==1.34.158
django-storages==1.14.4

any ideas?

2

That type of error can be caused by a missing dependency.

In addition to the boto3 package, are botocore, jmespath, s3transfer, and urllib3 also installed? (You don’t show them here, so I need to ask.)

3

Did you find a solution to this problem? I am currently experiencing the same issue and I have not been able to find help online.