Mezzanine and Gunicorn

[John Munroe]

Hi

I'm trying to get Mezzanine to work with Gunicorn, but I somehow can't reach /static. I get 404 when I try to access static/css/bootstrap.responsive.css, static/mezzanine/js/jquery-1.7.1.min.js etc. Does anyone know why? I didn't make any changes to the settings or variables in Gunicorn.

Thanks

John

[Lorin Hochstein]

John:

When you run a django app like mezzanine in production mode using a tool like gunicorn, it won't serve static files, such as those from your /static directory. The recommended approach is to configure your web server to serve the static content. 

for example, we have the following lines in our nginx config file for doing this:

    location  /static/ {

        root  /home/deploy/our-mezzanine-app/projects/our-project;

        access_log      off;

        log_not_found   off;

    }

See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/howto/static-files/#serving-static-files-in-production for details about static files and django

Take care,

Lorin

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Lorin Hochstein

Lead Architect - Cloud Services

Nimbis Services, Inc.

www.nimbisservices.com

[Ken Bolton]

Also, be sure to look at the excellent deployment work at https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/tree/master/mezzanine/project_template/deploy and the Fabric script at https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/blob/master/mezzanine/project_template/fabfile.py. The nginx.conf in the `deploy` directory is a great illustration of Lorin's example.

best,

ken

[John Munroe]

Unfortunately I'm running it on Heroku and can't make a similar configuration...

John

[Stephen McDonald]

Nate from appsembler recently set up Mezzanine on a handful of different providers including Heroku:

http://appsembler.com/blog/paas-bakeoff-comparing-stackato-openshift-dotcloud-and-heroku-for-django-hosting-and-deployment/

You'll find source code there as well which might help.

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Stephen McDonald
http://jupo.org

[John Munroe]

Thanks. My ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX_CUSTOM is set to STATIC_URL + "grappelli/", where STATIC_URL is "/static/". However, in my /static/ there isn't grappelli/, so should I upload lib/python2.7/site-packages/grappelli_safe/static to S3 instead?

Thanks

John