Django admin without css even though nginx is serving static files

Question

I know there are tons of similar questions like this, but I couldn't find any that fits my case:

I'm using django (2.1.7) with gunicorn and nginx in a single docker container (requirement for the infrastructure we use at work), but have trouble with the admin menu. When executing locally and visiting http://localhost:8080/admin/ the page is rendered without css.

After a bit of digging I found out that nginx is, in fact, serving the files. For instance, I can visit http://localhost:8080/static/admin/css/base.css in my browser and the file in question is loaded. Also the static dir in my BASEDIR contains all the expected files...

I don't know how I can continue investigating this further. All related questions seem to have a flaw in their STATIC_ROOT config, forgot the collectstatic command or misuse the alias in the nginx config. All of which seem to work for me...

I feel like I'm missing something pretty basic. Does anyone of you have an idea? Thanks for your help!

Below my config files: settings.py :

"""
Django settings for mysite project.

Generated by 'django-admin startproject' using Django 2.1.7.

For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/settings/

For the full list of settings and their values, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/settings/
"""

import os

# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))


# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/howto/deployment/checklist/

# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = 'u8$jv5m9+^pcpcjz$a!uipnq-ufu(kjwfq9ft2)no^-bqv&%$='

# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = bool(int(os.environ["DEBUG"]))

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["*"]


# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]

MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]

ROOT_URLCONF = 'mysite.urls'

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'mysite.wsgi.application'


# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/settings/#databases

DATABASES = {
    "default": {
        "ENGINE": os.environ["DB_ENGINE"],
        "NAME": os.environ["DB_NAME"],
        "USER": os.environ["DB_USER"],
        "PASSWORD": os.environ["DB_PASSWORD"],
        "HOST": os.environ["DB_HOST"],
        "PORT": os.environ["DB_PORT"],
        "ATOMIC_REQUESTS": True,
    }
}


# Password validation
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators

AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
    },
]


# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True


# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")

gunicorn_config.py :

bind = '0.0.0.0:5000'
workers = 2
chdir = "./mysite"
reload = True

nginx.conf :

http {

    server {
        listen 8080;

        location /static/ {
            alias /code/mysite/static/;
            expires max;
        }

        location / {
            proxy_pass  http://127.0.0.1:5000;
            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header Host $host;
            proxy_redirect off;
        }
    }
}
events {

}

docker command: (can also post the whole Dockerfile and docker-compose if needed)

python ./mysite/manage.py makemigrations;
python ./mysite/manage.py migrate;
python ./mysite/manage.py collectstatic --noinput;
service nginx start;
gunicorn --config gunicorn_config.py mysite.wsgi:application

Answer 1

Alight, thanks to nik_m's answer I managed to find the solution. The problem was, that the css files were served, but send as text/plain (which you can see in the Content-Type of the response headers).

The solution was to include mime.types in the nginx.conf similar to how it's shown here

This is my new nginx.conf:

http {
    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;

    server {
        listen 8080;

        location /static/ {
            alias /code/mysite/static/;
            expires max;
        }

        location / {
            proxy_pass  http://127.0.0.1:5000;
            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header Host $host;
            proxy_redirect off;
        }
    }
}
events {

}

Using the full mime.types from the nginx documentation and storing it at /etc/nginx/mime.types

Note: Don't forget to perform a hard refresh when reloading the page with cmd+shift+R ;)