ahh
my blessed governor came and helped me out
server {
listen 80;
index index.html;
root /path/to/djangoproject/top/folder;
location ~*
^.+\.(html|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js)$
{
root
path/to/folder/that/contains/files/in/static/folders/; (minus the folder
name media that was on the end)
expires 30d;
break;
}
Big up to kwe
On 15/01/2008, Matt Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone
>
> Has anyone had any experience of serving up static content with nginx?
>
> Here's the relevant parts from my setings file
>
> MEDIA_ROOT = '/path/to/folder/that/contains/files/in/static/folders/'
>
> so that last folder has folders called images, and css etc etc.
>
> MEDIA_URL = 'http://webisteurl/media/
>
> Now this works fine using lighttpd and a rewrite rule in lighttpd.conf
>
> alias.url = (
> # "/media/" =>
> "/path/to/folder/that/contains/files/in/static/folders/",
> # )
> # url.rewrite-once = (
> # "^(/media.*)$" => "$1",
> # "^(/.*)$" => "/mysite.fcgi$1",
> # )
> # }
>
> But I'm buggered if I know how to write that in the nginx.conf file.
>
> I've tried alot of different variations on this theme
>
> server {
> listen 80;
> server_name websiteurl;
> index index.html;
> root /oath/to/djangoproject/top/folder;
> location /media/ {
> root
> /path/to/folder/that/contains/files/in/static/folders/;
> }
> # static resources
> location ~*
> ^.+\.(html|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js)$
> {
> expires 30d;
> break;
> }
>
>
> If anyone can shed any light I would be eternally grateful, it's starting
> to annoy me now.
>
> :-)
>
>
>
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