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Nginx not serving static files for Django app! Help!

Posted July 6, 2015 47.7k views
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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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  • dhankarrohit October 13, 2019
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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 .

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kamaln7 July 6, 2015

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
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NikolaDang December 17, 2015

‘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
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Ishangirdhar April 27, 2016

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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svsaraf October 16, 2016

The solution is to either:

1) change the permissions on the django folder so that nginx can read the files

or

2) move the staticfiles directory to a place where nginx can read. I recommend something like /var/www/staticfiles

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khaledwj90 March 17, 2017

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 *

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