Re: Serving static files in production

[David Nugent]

Don't think I ever used alias for this.

You could try something like this (works for me - this is a cut and paste
of an existing working config) though you may be a little more constrained
with names of directories:

server {
[... elided]

location / {

location ~ /static/ {
sendfileon;
tcp_nopush  on;
root/srv/approot;
}

location / {
proxy_set_headerHost $http_host;
proxy_set_headerX-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_headerX-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_redirect  off;
proxy_pass  http://;
}
}
[... elided]
}

Note that files being served are contained in the actual directory
/srv/approot/static, and you can serve media here also from the "media" dir
using

location ~ /(media|static)/ { ...

HTH, David

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 3:42 PM Brian Odhiambo 
wrote:

> Thanks for your response @David.
> Here is my nginx configuration.[image:
> 1c9b64ec-c74f-4004-8b8d-9a6e7a3d8069.png]
> Pointed it to staticfiles after running collectstatic files command.
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 8:11 AM Prosper Lekia 
> wrote:
>
>> Is whitenoise installed and added to MiddleWare?
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 00:37 David Nugent  wrote:
>>
>>> Ensure that nginx is correctly configured, since from what you have
>>> provided the django configuration looks correct (although I generally use
>>> /static/ as STATIC_URL - with the leading / but should work as you have
>>> it). Check the nginx error log to try to discover the cause of the 404s. I
>>> suspect that the location blocks are defined in the wrong order or the
>>> directory pointing to the incorrect location.
>>>
>>> In any case, whitenoise is not a bad solution tbh, and very flexible
>>> besides. I would solve the above - which should work - before investigating
>>> that further.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> David
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 1:01 AM Brian Odhiambo <
>>> brianodhiambo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
 Hello everyone,
 I am deploying a django project to a dedicated server.
 I have set nginx to find static files in this file "staticfiles".

 This is the setting in settings.py file:

 STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'staticfiles'
 STATIC_URL = 'static/'

 After running collectstatic command, my project can't still load the
 static files.
 Could I get a general way of going about this, without having to rely
 on a third party library like whitenoise?

 My appreciation in advance.

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Re: Serving static files in production

[Brian Odhiambo]

@Prosper,
I installed whitenoise at some point, but later removed its configuration.

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 8:11 AM Prosper Lekia 
wrote:

> Is whitenoise installed and added to MiddleWare?
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 00:37 David Nugent  wrote:
>
>> Ensure that nginx is correctly configured, since from what you have
>> provided the django configuration looks correct (although I generally use
>> /static/ as STATIC_URL - with the leading / but should work as you have
>> it). Check the nginx error log to try to discover the cause of the 404s. I
>> suspect that the location blocks are defined in the wrong order or the
>> directory pointing to the incorrect location.
>>
>> In any case, whitenoise is not a bad solution tbh, and very flexible
>> besides. I would solve the above - which should work - before investigating
>> that further.
>>
>> Regards,
>> David
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 1:01 AM Brian Odhiambo <
>> brianodhiambo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> I am deploying a django project to a dedicated server.
>>> I have set nginx to find static files in this file "staticfiles".
>>>
>>> This is the setting in settings.py file:
>>>
>>> STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'staticfiles'
>>> STATIC_URL = 'static/'
>>>
>>> After running collectstatic command, my project can't still load the
>>> static files.
>>> Could I get a general way of going about this, without having to rely on
>>> a third party library like whitenoise?
>>>
>>> My appreciation in advance.
>>>
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Re: Serving static files in production

[Brian Odhiambo]

Thanks for your response @David.
Here is my nginx configuration.[image:
1c9b64ec-c74f-4004-8b8d-9a6e7a3d8069.png]
Pointed it to staticfiles after running collectstatic files command.

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 8:11 AM Prosper Lekia 
wrote:

> Is whitenoise installed and added to MiddleWare?
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 00:37 David Nugent  wrote:
>
>> Ensure that nginx is correctly configured, since from what you have
>> provided the django configuration looks correct (although I generally use
>> /static/ as STATIC_URL - with the leading / but should work as you have
>> it). Check the nginx error log to try to discover the cause of the 404s. I
>> suspect that the location blocks are defined in the wrong order or the
>> directory pointing to the incorrect location.
>>
>> In any case, whitenoise is not a bad solution tbh, and very flexible
>> besides. I would solve the above - which should work - before investigating
>> that further.
>>
>> Regards,
>> David
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 1:01 AM Brian Odhiambo <
>> brianodhiambo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> I am deploying a django project to a dedicated server.
>>> I have set nginx to find static files in this file "staticfiles".
>>>
>>> This is the setting in settings.py file:
>>>
>>> STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'staticfiles'
>>> STATIC_URL = 'static/'
>>>
>>> After running collectstatic command, my project can't still load the
>>> static files.
>>> Could I get a general way of going about this, without having to rely on
>>> a third party library like whitenoise?
>>>
>>> My appreciation in advance.
>>>
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Re: Serving static files in production

[Prosper Lekia]

Is whitenoise installed and added to MiddleWare?

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 00:37 David Nugent  wrote:

> Ensure that nginx is correctly configured, since from what you have
> provided the django configuration looks correct (although I generally use
> /static/ as STATIC_URL - with the leading / but should work as you have
> it). Check the nginx error log to try to discover the cause of the 404s. I
> suspect that the location blocks are defined in the wrong order or the
> directory pointing to the incorrect location.
>
> In any case, whitenoise is not a bad solution tbh, and very flexible
> besides. I would solve the above - which should work - before investigating
> that further.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 1:01 AM Brian Odhiambo 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>> I am deploying a django project to a dedicated server.
>> I have set nginx to find static files in this file "staticfiles".
>>
>> This is the setting in settings.py file:
>>
>> STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'staticfiles'
>> STATIC_URL = 'static/'
>>
>> After running collectstatic command, my project can't still load the
>> static files.
>> Could I get a general way of going about this, without having to rely on
>> a third party library like whitenoise?
>>
>> My appreciation in advance.
>>
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Re: Serving static files in production

[David Nugent]

Ensure that nginx is correctly configured, since from what you have
provided the django configuration looks correct (although I generally use
/static/ as STATIC_URL - with the leading / but should work as you have
it). Check the nginx error log to try to discover the cause of the 404s. I
suspect that the location blocks are defined in the wrong order or the
directory pointing to the incorrect location.

In any case, whitenoise is not a bad solution tbh, and very flexible
besides. I would solve the above - which should work - before investigating
that further.

Regards,
David

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 1:01 AM Brian Odhiambo 
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> I am deploying a django project to a dedicated server.
> I have set nginx to find static files in this file "staticfiles".
>
> This is the setting in settings.py file:
>
> STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'staticfiles'
> STATIC_URL = 'static/'
>
> After running collectstatic command, my project can't still load the
> static files.
> Could I get a general way of going about this, without having to rely on a
> third party library like whitenoise?
>
> My appreciation in advance.
>
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Serving static files in production

[Brian Odhiambo]

Hello everyone,
I am deploying a django project to a dedicated server.
I have set nginx to find static files in this file "staticfiles".

This is the setting in settings.py file:

STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'staticfiles'
STATIC_URL = 'static/'

After running collectstatic command, my project can't still load the static 
files.
Could I get a general way of going about this, without having to rely on a 
third party library like whitenoise?

My appreciation in advance.

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