Serving static files with Nginx + Gunicorn + Django
django, nginx
Solution
You need to create an nginx location block that matches the location of your django `STATIC_URL`. As you have it configured, nginx is also forwarding requests for static assets to your django application. I'm guessing you are seeing the 404 errors in your django application log? You want nginx to handle these requests, not django.
location /static {
alias /home/tunde/django-projects/mumu/STATIC/;
}
Be sure to run the django admin command `collectstatic` to make sure all the static assets get copied to the `STATIC_ROOT` directory.
Problem
This is my nginx config: ``` server { listen 80; server_name localhost; keepalive_timeout 5; access_log /home/tunde/django-projects/mumu/nginx/access.log; error_log /home/tunde/django-projects/mumu/nginx/error.log; root /home/tunde/django-projects/mumu; location / { try_files $uri @proxy_to_app; } location @proxy_to_app { proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header Host $http_host; proxy_redirect off; proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000; } } ``` My settings.py looks like: ``` import os settings_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__) PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(settings_dir)) STATIC_ROOT = '/home/tunde/django-projects/mumu/STATIC/' STATIC_URL = '/static/' STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static/'), ) ``` My supervisord.conf file looks like: ``` [program: mumu] command = /home/tunde/ENV1/bin/gunicorn -w 1 --bind=127.0.0.1:8000 mumu.wsgi:application directory = /home/tunde/django-projects/mumu/ stdout_logfile= /home/tunde/django-projects/mumu/supervisor/logfile.log stderr_logfile= /home/tunde/django-projects/mumu/supervisor/error.log user = tunde ``` The problem is that static files don't get served and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. A url like /static/css/styles.css returns a 404. Help will be greatly appreciated.