Django, Apache2 and Nginx : Long loading time - django

Question

I use Django as a technology for my website. Let's say that the domain name I use is example.com.
I use Apache2 as my main web server and Nginx to serve static files.
I first installed Apache and tested it. It worked perfectly (Without css and other static files, just the html).
I then installed Nginx (I have never used it before today) and this is where I encountered problems. Indeed when I want to access my website I get the html well as before. But the loading continues and the static files are not recovered.
I do not see any error in the Mozilla terminal.
Here is "Site-available" configuration :
<VirtualHost *:80>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
#ServerName www.example.com
ServerAdmin contact#example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/my_site
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>
apache.conf :
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all denied
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share>
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
#<Directory /srv/>
# Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
# AllowOverride None
# Require all granted
#</Directory>
# Configuration for Django application
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/my_site/site/wsgi.py
WSGIPythonPath /var/www/my_site
<Directory var/www/my_site/my_site>
<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>
# AccessFileName: The name of the file to look for in each directory
# for additional configuration directives. See also the AllowOverride
# directive.
#
AccessFileName .htaccess
#
# The following lines prevent .htaccess and .htpasswd files from being
# viewed by Web clients.
#
<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
Require all denied
</FilesMatch>
# FQDN
ServerName example.com
My Nginx config :
server {
listen 8000;
server_name localhost;
access_log /var/log/nginx/aa8000.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/aa8000.error.log;
location / {
index index.html index.htm;
}
location ^/static/ {
autoindex on;
root /var/www/my_site/allstatic/;
}
}
And to finish my Django setting for static files :
STATIC_URL = 'http://example.com:8000/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
'/var/www/my_site/static/',
]
STATIC_ROOT = '/var/www/my_site/allstatic'
Nothing in Nginx error log or even in access log.
Edit : Finally I only use apache and it works.
There is what I added in apache conf:
Alias /favicon.ico /var/www/my_site/allstatic/favicon/favicon.ico
Alias /media/ /var/www/my_site/media/
Alias /static/ /var/www/my_site/allstatic/
<Directory /var/www/my_site/allstatic>
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/my_site/media>
Require all granted
</Directory>

Answer 1

I suggest you add static (and if you need it, media) sections to your apache file like the example at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/#serving-files in your apache.conf
And are you hosting more than one site? If not, don't use the sites-available; just turn off virtual hosting and don't enable anything in the sites-enabled directory.