Django static files in live server using nginx

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I have a live server running django, the address is http://179.188.3.54/ . As you can see, the app works but looks like the static files arent working. Also if I click in any other link, doesnt work.

This website is running without any problems in development version. Im not sure what I should do to fix this problem.

Here is my nginx config file and my settings.py

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = '/cinegloria/cinegloria/cinegloria/static/'

PS: I tried to run collectstatic ;)

server {
    root /usr/share/nginx/www;
    index index.html index.htm;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/domain-access.log;
    server_name 0.0.0.0;

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    proxy_pass_header Server;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For  $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme;
    proxy_connect_timeout 10;
    proxy_read_timeout 10;
    proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:8000/;
}
}

Any ideas or sample code will be appreciated!

catavaran · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-23 02:45:55Z

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Add the static serving to the nginx conf before the / pattern:

location /static {
    alias /cinegloria/cinegloria/cinegloria/static/;
}

location / {
    ...
}

Or set the STATIC_ROOT to the directory under the www root:

STATIC_ROOT = '/usr/share/nginx/www/static'

Or add the symlink from www root to you static dir:

$ ln -s /cinegloria/cinegloria/cinegloria/static /usr/share/nginx/www/static

edited Feb 23, 2015 at 2:45

answered Feb 23, 2015 at 2:09

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Lara Over a year ago

Good one! It's working now. Your code is missing a ; in the end of alias line. Anyway, thanks for your answer. And about my pages, if I click in any link, is not working, it can be also nginx problem?

Lara Over a year ago

For example contact page, 179.188.3.54/contato ... any other page that I click, I get this error... [22/Feb/2015:23:50:37 -0300] "GET /contato/ HTTP/1.1" 404 1308 "179.188.3.54"

catavaran Over a year ago

Try to comment the try_files directive. You don't need it for the regular django app.

Isa Hassen · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-23 02:14:48Z

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Add another nginx directive for the static files. Static files should be served by nginx, not the Django server.

location  /static/ {
    alias  /cinegloria/cinegloria/cinegloria/static/;
}

If that still doesn't work, you may need to add the mime type directive. I had to do that yesterday, because for some reason nginx wasn't serving the correct mime type when I used an alias.

As a helpful pointer, whenever you run into problems like this, take a look at your nginx error log and paste the last few lines for debugging. It is located at /var/log/nginx/error.log or a similar path.

answered Feb 23, 2015 at 2:14

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Lara Over a year ago

Do you know why my pages are broken? Seems like the links are not working. Is that a nginx problem ? do you know?

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