Nginx unable to load static files from django - django

Question

family, Im having a little trouble to make nginx server load static file collected by django. here is my nginx sites-available
server {
listen 80;
server_name <my_ip_address>;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
}
location /asset/ {
autoindex on;
alias /var/www/html/dev2_assets/;
}
}
Down here is my Django STATIC_URL and STATIC_ROOT configurations
STATIC_URL = '/assets/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "assets"),
)
STATIC_ROOT = '/var/www/html/dev2_assets/'
When i run the application with ./manage.py runserver its loads all the static files. Any help. Thanks

Answer 1

Your problem is your Location.
Your not specifying a root for it, also in your settings.py your declaring assets but in your location your declaring asset with a missing s. try changing it to something like this:
location /assets/ {
autoindex on;
root /var/www/html/dev2_assets;
}
Also for debugging purposes try added this above location:
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
Then you will get a specific error message about it not being able to retrive your static files.
Lastly are you sure your utilyzing nginx, django, and gunicorn correct?
Here is a copy of my site file for comparison:
# This redirects all incoming traffic on port 80 to 443
server {
listen 80;
server_name domain.com;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/domain.com.chained.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/domain.com.key;
server_name helius.dk;
access_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.error.log;
#location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location /static/ {
root /home/user/projectname/static;
}
location / {
include proxy_params;
proxy_pass http://unix:/home/user/projectname/gunicorn.sock;
}
}