django+nginx+uwsgi 404 on static files - django

Question

I have a django app, using nginx and uwsgi to serve it. My static files return a 404. I have set ownership of the files to correspond to the nginx username. The path to the static folder was copied directly from terminal, and I ran collectstatic (the static files are successfully served via the django development server). I have also run
chown -R username:username /home
and
chmod -R ug+r /home
I have tried both alias and root.
STATIC_ROOT is in my settings.py
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static/")
Here is my nginx.conf:
user username;
worker_processes 1;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
sendfile on;
gzip on;
gzip_http_version 1.0;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_min_length 500;
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.";
gzip_types text/plain text/xml text/css
text/comma-separated-values
text/javascript
application/x-javascript
application/atom+xml;
# Configuration containing list of application servers
upstream app_servers {
server 127.0.0.1:8080;
# server 127.0.0.1:8081;
# ..
# .
}
# Configuration for Nginx
server {
# Running port
listen 80;
# Settings to serve static files
location /static/ {
# Example:
# root /full/path/to/application/static/file/dir;
alias /home/myapp/myapp/static/;
}
# Serve a static file (ex. favico)
# outside /static directory
location = /favico.ico {
root /app/favico.ico;
}
# Proxy connections to the application servers
# app_servers
location / {
proxy_pass http://app_servers;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
}
}
}

Answer 1

It is a bad idea to chown the /home directory to some user. That directory should belong to root. Change it back to what it was:
chown root:root /home
chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx /home
(The chmod you've run has probably not altered its permissions, but better be certain, therefore the second command above, which reverts it to what it was.)
You say that your project is under /home/username, but the nginx configuration says /home/myapp. Fix that. I assume it's /home/username. The /home/username needs some permissions to be fixed:
chmod o+rx /home/username
See also (my article) http://djangodeployment.com/2016/11/21/how-django-static-files-work-in-production/.