Django 1.6 uWSGI + nginx wont serve static files

Question

I have a Django 1.6 application for testing purpose as shown:

media folder -> /home/josealejandro93/Desktop/Soporte/media
static folder -> /home/josealejandro93/Desktop/Soporte/static
root folder -> /home/josealejandro93/Desktop/Soporte  # manage.py lives here!

I managed to configure uwsgi using this tutorial on Linux Arch and when I run

uwsgi --http :8000 --module soporte.wsgi

I can see my application running on localhost:8000 however by following the configuration instructions in the tutorial pointed above I wasn't able to serve static files so I tried a new configuration for my /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

worker_processes  1;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  localhost;

        location / {
            include /etc/nginx/mime.types;      
            root   /home/josealejandro93/Desktop/Soporte;
            index  index.html index.htm;
        }


        error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
            root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        }
    }


}

As you can see, that file is just a basic configuration file but I'm still not able to serve my static files.

Any idea on what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You should configure nginx to recognize and serve media and static files:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  localhost;

    location / {
        include /etc/nginx/mime.types;      
        root   /home/josealejandro93/Desktop/Soporte;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }

    location /static/ { 
        alias /home/josealejandro93/Desktop/Soporte/static;
    }

    location /media/ { 
        alias /home/josealejandro93/Desktop/Soporte/media;
    }
}