ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found) error in VueJS - django

Question

I deployed a Django+VueJS application to a Digital Ocean droplet using Nginx, the Django app is working but i can't see the VueJS components loaded by Webpack (i'm using Django-Webpack-Loader).
In my console, i keep seing these errors:
GET http://MYURL/static/vue/js/stopwatch.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)
GET http://MYURL/static/vue/js/index.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)
Which means that the static folder was not found. I made sure to use npm run build and manage.py collectstatic and i can see that the static folder is there, even though the app doesn't see it. Here is the path:
django-vue-mpa
|-vue_frontend
|-django_vue_mpa
|-static
The full code of the application is here (i just cloned that repository and tried to deploy it).
Here is my vue.config.js (i think the problem might be here):
const BundleTracker = require("webpack-bundle-tracker");
const BundleAnalyzerPlugin = require("webpack-bundle-analyzer").BundleAnalyzerPlugin;
const pages = {
"stopwatch": {
entry: "./src/stopwatch.js",
chunks: ["chunk-moment", "chunk-vendors"],
},
"index": {
entry: "./src/index.js",
chunks: ["chunk-vendors"],
},
'vue_app_01': {
entry: './src/main.js',
chunks: ['chunk-vendors']
},
'vue_app_02': {
entry: './src/newhampshir.js',
chunks: ['chunk-vendors']
},
}
module.exports = {
pages: pages,
filenameHashing: false,
productionSourceMap: false,
publicPath: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production'
? '/static/vue'
: 'http://localhost:8080/',
outputDir: '/django-vue-mpa/django_vue_mpa/static/vue/',
chainWebpack: config => {
config.optimization
.splitChunks({
cacheGroups: {
moment: {
test: /[\\/]node_modules[\\/]moment/,
name: "chunk-moment",
chunks: "all",
priority: 5
},
vendor: {
test: /[\\/]node_modules[\\/]/,
name: "chunk-vendors",
chunks: "all",
priority: 1
},
},
});
Object.keys(pages).forEach(page => {
config.plugins.delete(`html-${page}`);
config.plugins.delete(`preload-${page}`);
config.plugins.delete(`prefetch-${page}`);
})
config
.plugin('BundleTracker')
.use(BundleTracker, [{filename: '../vue_frontend/webpack-stats.json'}]);
// Uncomment below to analyze bundle sizes
// config.plugin("BundleAnalyzerPlugin").use(BundleAnalyzerPlugin);
config.resolve.alias
.set('__STATIC__', 'static')
config.devServer
.public('http://localhost:8080')
.host('localhost')
.port(8080)
.hotOnly(true)
.watchOptions({poll: 1000})
.https(false)
.headers({"Access-Control-Allow-Origin": ["*"]})
}
};
Here is my nginx config:
server {
listen 80;
server_name http://MYURL/;
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location /static/ {
root /django-vue-mpa/django_vue_mpa/static;
}
location / {
include proxy_params;
proxy_pass http://unix:/django-vue-mpa/django-vue-mpa.sock;
}
}
And here is my settings.py:
import os
# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/deployment/checklist/
# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = 'MYKEY'
# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = False
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['MYURL']
# Application definition
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'webpack_loader',
'django_vue_mpa'
]
MIDDLEWARE = [
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]
ROOT_URLCONF = 'django_vue_mpa.urls'
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')
],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
WSGI_APPLICATION = 'django_vue_mpa.wsgi.application'
VUE_FRONTEND_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'vue_frontend')
WEBPACK_LOADER = {
'DEFAULT': {
'CACHE': not DEBUG,
'BUNDLE_DIR_NAME': 'vue/', # must end with slash
'STATS_FILE': os.path.join(VUE_FRONTEND_DIR, 'webpack-stats.json'),
'POLL_INTERVAL': 0.3,
'TIMEOUT': None,
'IGNORE': [r'.+\.hot-update.js', r'.+\.map']
}
}
# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#databases
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
}
}
# Password validation
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
},
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
},
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
},
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
},
]
# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/topics/i18n/
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True
# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/static-files/
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = "/django-vue-mpa/django_vue_mpa/static"

Answer 1

Check the difference between root and alias nginx directives. For your case you should use
location /static/ {
root /django-vue-mpa/django_vue_mpa;
}
instead of
location /static/ {
root /django-vue-mpa/django_vue_mpa/static;
}
You'd see nginx searches files on a wrong path if you looked at its error log.