getting nginx to serve static files (django, gunicorn) - django

Question

When DEBUG = True, Django serves the static files and I can see my site, and the admin page, styled correctly and run the correct js. My intuition is I have misconfigured nginx, and I'm struggling to find the cause. Some background:
sudo nginx -t && sudo systemctl restart nginx
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
cat sites-enabled/mysite
server {
listen 80;
server_name IP_ADDR;
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location /static {
root /home/ubuntu/mysite;
}
location / {
include proxy_params;
proxy_pass http://unix:/run/gunicorn.sock;
}
}
which is symlinked to sites-available/mysite
/var/log/nginx/error.log only has the line 2020/03/01 19:57:49 [notice] 20644#20644: signal process started, but the access log has a number of 404s. Upon trying to access the application URL, chrome dev console shows:
Refused to apply style from 'IP_ADDR:8000/static/css/console.css' because its MIME type ('text/html') is not a supported stylesheet MIME type, and strict MIME checking is enabled.
IP_ADDR/:9 GET IP_ADDR:8000/static/js/jquery.min.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)
IP_ADDR/:11 GET IP_ADDR:8000/static/js/console.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)
IP_ADDR/:10 GET IP_ADDR:8000/static/js/content.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)
IP_ADDR/:11 GET IP_ADDR:8000/static/js/console.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)
favicon.ico:1 GET IP_ADDR:8000/static/favicon.ico 404 (Not Found)
I have include /etc/nginx/mime.types; in my nginx.conf, and mime.types includes the line
text/html html htm shtml;,
though I think that's correct since my css file should be text/css, but I don't know the best way to get over that hurdle. I've run python manage.py collectstatic and my project structure is this:
(venv) ubuntu#IP_ADDR:~/mysite$ tree -L 1
.
├── README.md
├── manage.py
├── mysite
├── requirements.txt
├── static
├── venv
└── mysite_views_urls_templates
I'm not sure if I've even given enough information, I'm really trying to deepen my understanding of the whole stack.

Answer 1

The answer was that I was running gunicorn manually over port 8000, blocking nginx from delivering the static files.