Django not serving static files in production

Question

settings.py:

DEBUG = False

STATIC_ROOT = '/opt/app/statics/'

# URL prefix for static files.
# Example: "http://example.com/static/", "http://static.example.com/"
STATIC_URL = '/statics/'

# Additional locations of static files
STATICFILES_DIRS = (os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'statics'),)

urls.py

from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
import settings

if settings.DEBUG == True:
    urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

/etc/nginx/sites-available/app

server {
    server_name xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;

    access_log on;

    location /statics/ {
        alias /opt/app/statics/;
    }

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        add_header P3P 'CP="ALL DSP COR PSAa PSDa OUR NOR ONL UNI COM NAV"';
    }
}

/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/app is exactly the same as in sites-available Folder with static files has been granted with highest possible privileges ( chmod 777 ).

Whenever I try to run the server with command:

gunicorn -b 0.0.0.0:8000 example.wsgi:application

It actually runs the server, but do not redirect correctly to static files

Answer 1

use this please:

root /opt/app/statics/;

instead:

alias /opt/app/statics/;

Answer 2

if your config with root is like this,

    location /static/ {
            root /opt/app/statics/;
    }

In this case the final path that Nginx will derive will be

/opt/app/statics/statics

This is going to return 404 since there is no statics/ within statics/

This is because the location part is appended to the path specified in the root. Hence, with root, the correct way is

location /static/ {
    root /opt/app/;
}