Django Nginx Gunicorn - Media Files Not Showing (DigitalOcean Deployment) - django

Question

I have deployed a Django project on Ubuntu 16.04 with Nginx and Gunicorn. I have gotten everything, including the static files but my media files will not serve properly.
settings.py
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
models.py
resume_upload = models.FileField(blank=False, upload_to='resumes', null=True, validators=[FileExtensionValidator(allowed_extensions=['pdf']), validate_file_size])
What I have listed in /etc/nginx/sites-available/ is
server {
listen 80;
server_name website.com www.website.com ;
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location /static/ {
root /home/syed/btawebsite;
}
location = /media/ {
root /home/syed/btawebsite;
}
location / {
include proxy_params;
proxy_pass http://unix:/home/syed/myproject.sock;
}
}
I would like go on the admin, click on the uploaded file and be able to view the file in the browser. Anyone have any ideas on how I can achieve this? I have verified through using the terminal and looking through the directories that the files are in fact adding to ~btawebsite/media/resumes but I am unable to view them when I click the admin url.
When I click on that url I get an error:
Not Found
The requested resource was not found on this server.
Update:
I have changed settings.py to
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/'),
)
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media/')
And nginx settings to
location /static/ {
alias /home/syed/btawebsite/static/;
}
location = /media/ {
alias /home/syed/btawebsite/media/;
}
Static is still working, however, media is not.

Answer 1

For nginx configuration, the "=" sign after location means this is the exact location match. So change your settings to
location /media/ {
root /home/syed/btawebsite;
}
and same for /static/. It's correct for the favicon. For more about the nginx location directive, check this.