Hello all, very new to Django and am trying out the tutorial here and I can’t seem to get it to serve static content. I’ve performed the following configurations in my settings.py:
import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
STATIC_PATH = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'static/')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS=(
STATIC_PATH,
)
my file is located at:
/home/django/django_project/static/images
when I use the full URL:
http://128.199.165.138/static/images/
I end up with the 404 Not Found nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu) error. Did I missed out on anything?
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turns out there’s one more step I missed. I had to go to nginx’s configuration file at
/etc/nginx/sites-available/django
to change the line from the previous one to reflect my folder arrangement.
location /static {
# alias /home/django/django_project/django_project/static;
alias /home/django/django_project/static;
}
restarted nginx and all is well!
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