Question
Nginx not serving static files for Django app! Help!
- Posted July 6, 2015
- DjangoDigitalOceanDigitalOcean ArticlesPythonDeployment
I’ve wasted 2 entire days without any help on this issue. I followed this guide and have started my application on Digital Ocean. It’s a djago app. The issue is, it is not loading any static file! My nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/webapp_name file looks like this:
server {
server_name domainname.com;
access_log off;
location /static/ {
root /opt/bizkeeda;
}
My static files are in folder: /opt/appname/static/
My settings.py file looks like this:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIR = '/opt/appname/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = '/opt/appname/static/'
I also tried changing STATIC_ROOT to /opt/appname
On checking url of static files on website, it is: www.domain.com:8001/static/js/abc.js
All 404 errors! What should I do?
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'location /static/ ’ part at sites-available and STATIC_ROOT at settings.py should be same. For example:
location /static/ {
alias /opt/appname/static/;
}
STATIC_ROOT = '/opt/appname/static/'
after that run:
python manage.py collectstatic
Have you run python manage.py collectstatic after uploading the app? Can you check if there are any errors in nginx’s error log?
sudo tail -30 /var/log/nginx/error.log
You have to restart the gunicorn also you have to restart the nginx after you update the nginx configuration.
sudo service gunicorn restart **sudo service nginx restart **
The solution is to either:
- change the permissions on the django folder so that nginx can read the files
or
- move the staticfiles directory to a place where nginx can read. I recommend something like /var/www/staticfiles
Hey Shekhar,
Did you find the solution to this, I am also facing the similar issue for my python flask application. It would be very helpful if you could share the solution that worked for you.
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Look at your Access and Error Logs , in location = /var/log/nginx Within which the string to look for is = failed (13: Permission denied) If this exists then its a Permission issue - otherwise follow the usual advise as given in other comments here .