Nginx – Serving Django staticfiles via Nginx 404

djangonginxuwsgi

I host my Djangoproject on Nginx with uwsgi. staticfiles need to be served separately by Nginx

server { 
    listen 80; 
    server_name blog.foo.de; 

    location /static { 
        root /home/user/blog/staticfiles; 
        access_log   off; 
        expires      30d; 
    } 

    location / {
       include uwsgi_params;
       uwsgi_pass unix:/tmp/blog.socket;
    }

    access_log      /var/log/nginx/blog.access.log combined;
    error_log       /var/log/nginx/blog.error.log warn;
}

My STATIC_URL is set to http://blog.foo.de/static/
The folder /home/user/blog/staticfiles contains a folder static, where the files are collected into. so according to other posts here everything sholud work — but it doesn't. the uwsgi part works just fine, but I only get a 404 when I try to access the static files.

Best Answer

This needs some general cleanup:

  • Your server block has two location / blocks, which is not permitted; one of them will be ignored. Use only one location block for any given location.
  • Your server block has no root defined. Make sure that root is defined only in the server block, and not in the location blocks (unless a location needs a different root).

I also recommend not turning off the access_log or using expires while debugging, as this can make it more difficult to isolate the cause of a problem.

Though to really fix this, consider rewriting it entirely. A very short example:

server {
    location @django {
        include uwsgi_params; 
        uwsgi_pass unix:/tmp/blog.socket; 
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ @django;
    }
}
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