Nginx - Django i serve perfect static files but not media files - django

Question

(Sorry for my bad english)
I'm having a peculiar problem... I configure Django and Nginx all perfect, my site shows perfect all static files are loaded perfect to. But..... Nginx is not serving the media files, i check my configurations and all seems to be ok. But i always get the 404 error and the route is the same that static files but with the media word
this is a static file route
http://project.com/static/css/custom.css
And this a media file
http://project.com/media/stores/logos/solutions_logo_rdWRcqQ.jpg
This is the nginx config
server {
listen 80;
server_name project.com;
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location /static/ {
root /home/username;
}
location /media/ {
root /home/username;
}
location / {
include proxy_params;
proxy_pass http://unix:/home/username/project.sock;
}
}
And this are the django settings
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/'),
)
STATIC_ROOT=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR)), 'static/')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(BASE_DIR)), 'media/')
Any idea???

Answer 1

A guess into the wild. Your static files are served directly by django and not by your nginx. (You can test that by removing the location /static { ... } section and restart your nginx.)
Then to fix your problem please try this:
server {
listen 80;
server_name project.com;
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location /static/ {
alias /home/username;
}
location /media/ {
alias /home/username;
}
location / {
include proxy_params;
proxy_pass http://unix:/home/username/project.sock;
}
}
Also, dont forget to restart your nginx afterwards.