Serving static files in production

[Brian Odhiambo]

Hello everyone,
I am deploying a django project to a dedicated server.
I have set nginx to find static files in this file "staticfiles".

This is the setting in settings.py file:

STATIC_ROOT = BASE_DIR / 'staticfiles'
STATIC_URL = 'static/'

After running collectstatic command, my project can't still load the static files.
Could I get a general way of going about this, without having to rely on a third party library like whitenoise?

My appreciation in advance.

[David Nugent]

Ensure that nginx is correctly configured, since from what you have provided the django configuration looks correct (although I generally use /static/ as STATIC_URL - with the leading / but should work as you have it). Check the nginx error log to try to discover the cause of the 404s. I suspect that the location blocks are defined in the wrong order or the directory pointing to the incorrect location.

In any case, whitenoise is not a bad solution tbh, and very flexible besides. I would solve the above - which should work - before investigating that further.

Regards,

David

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[Prosper Lekia]

Is whitenoise installed and added to MiddleWare?

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[Brian Odhiambo]

Thanks for your response @David. 
Here is my nginx configuration.
Pointed it to staticfiles after running collectstatic files command.

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[Brian Odhiambo]

@Prosper, 
I installed whitenoise at some point, but later removed its configuration.

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[David Nugent]

Don't think I ever used alias for this.

You could try something like this (works for me - this is a cut and paste of an existing working config) though you may be a little more constrained with names of directories:

server {
    [... elided]

    location / {

        location ~ /static/ {
            sendfile    on;
            tcp_nopush  on;
            root        /srv/approot;
        }

        location / {
            proxy_set_header    Host $http_host;
            proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
            proxy_redirect      off;
            proxy_pass          http://<upstream-name>;
        }
    }

    [... elided]

}

Note that files being served are contained in the actual directory /srv/approot/static, and you can serve media here also from the "media" dir using

    location ~ /(media|static)/ { ...

HTH, David

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