How to get static files to work on a server - django

Question

I'm following the pythonprogramming.net Django tutorials, and I'm really confused by the static files part. When I run it locally it works, but the css isn't working on the server. I'm running
nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/django
and it's returning the alias /home/django/django_project/django_project/media
which I'm putting into the STATIC_ROOT variable. Then when I run
python manage.py collectstatic
it says they have been copied to the static location, but it doesn't show them when i refresh my ip.
here's the source code
import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
SECRET_KEY = 'It's secret'
DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True
ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
# Application definition
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
'blog',
'personal',
)
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
)
ROOT_URLCONF = 'django_project.urls'
WSGI_APPLICATION = 'django_project.wsgi.application'
# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/ref/settings/#databases
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
}
}
# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/topics/i18n/
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True
# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/howto/static-files/
STATIC_ROOT='/home/django/django_project/django_project/media;'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'