[SOLVED] Django, gunicorn, and nginx proxy: static files give 404

Issue

I am running a development of a django project via gunicorn on my local machine. For reasons™, I want to set up nginx as a proxy for it. So far so, good:

location /intranet {
    return 301 /intranet/;
}

location /intranet/ {
    rewrite ^/intranet(.*) /$1 break; 
    proxy_redirect default;
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
}

This does the trick nicely. However, none of the static files are severed: all I get is 404 for those.

How can I modify the above nginx configuration so that the static content is severed?

Note that using https::127.0.0.1:8000, the static files are served just fine.

Solution

In the project you shoud point the URL:

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static/")

If you have a static folder in every app you can use:

python manage.py collectstatic

This grabs all your static files and put them on the same static folder (STATIC_ROOT)

Then your Ngnix also must to know where statifiles are stored

server {
    access_log /pathto/log/acces.log;
    error_log  /pathto/log/error.log;
    server_name ******
    charset     utf-8;

    location /static {
        alias /path/to/your/static; <---- This Line
    }

    location /intranet/ {
        rewrite ^/intranet(.*) /$1 break; 
        proxy_redirect default;
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
    }
}

Answered By - Zartch