GDAL 2 not working in AWS Elastic Beanstalk - amazon-web-services

Question

I installed GDAL and necessary libraries by following this link: https://github.com/vancityhuddy/aws-eb-gdal-example
Had to use aws s3 instead of s3cmd tho, and removed PYTHONPATH from environment variables since EB's configuration already comes with PYTHONPATH. Anyways, here is a copy of my .config file.
container_commands:
01_install_geos:
command: |
sudo wget ***RemovedTheURLForSecurity***/geos-3.6.4.tar.gz
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/geos
sudo tar -xvf geos-3.6.4.tar.gz -C /usr/local/geos
sudo rm -f geos-3.6.4.tar.gz
test: "[ ! -d /usr/local/geos ]"
02_install_proj4:
command: |
sudo wget ***RemovedTheURLForSecurity***/proj4-5.2.0.tar.gz
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/proj4
sudo tar -xvf proj4-5.2.0.tar.gz -C /usr/local/proj4
sudo rm -f proj4-5.2.0.tar.gz
test: "[ ! -d /usr/local/proj4 ]"
03_install_gdal:
command: |
sudo wget ***RemovedTheURLForSecurity***/gdal-2.4.4.tar.gz
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/gdal
sudo tar -xvf gdal-2.4.4.tar.gz -C /usr/local/gdal
sudo rm -f gdal-2.4.4.tar.gz
test: "[ ! -d /usr/local/gdal ]"
04_migrate:
command: "source /var/app/venv/*/bin/activate && python3 manage.py makemigrations && python3 manage.py migrate"
leader_only: true
05_createsu:
command: "source /var/app/venv/*/bin/activate && python3 manage.py createsu"
leader_only: true
option_settings:
aws:elasticbeanstalk:application:environment:
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: core.settings
PATH: /usr/local/gdal/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/local/proj4/lib:/usr/local/geos/lib:/usr/local/gdal/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/local/gdal/lib/libgdal.so
But still, this error occurs even thought the geos, proj4 and gdal commands completed successfully,
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Could not find the GDAL library (tried "gdal", "GDAL", "gdal3.1.0", "gdal3.0.0", "gdal2.4.0", "gdal2.3.0", "gdal2.2.0", "gdal2.1.0", "gdal2.0.0"). Is GDAL installed? If it is, try setting GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH in your settings.
When I add GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH in settings.py according to the message. This is what it shows:
OSError: /usr/local/gdal/lib/libgdal.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I'm clueless here. I have been trying to deploy this for two days. Any help would be appreciated.