When you are using Nginx, it is assumed you are trying to make a production environment. On production environments you don't want your backend code execution to be slowed down by something like serving people downloading static images. On production environments, Django will focus on its purpose, which is to handle application code logic.
Static files handling should be delegated to other server such as Nginx. The static file folder will be referenced directly by Nginx. Most of static files, such as images are so irrelevant to your backend application logic so that they can be cached on the browser. On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:36 PM Robert F. <robert.flaug...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to understand how static files are served up by Django using a > project I've created on my Mac using Django 3, Gunicorn, and Nginx. The > website serves up templates correctly except that the templates can't see > my CSS stylesheet. When I go to a page, for example ``` > 127.0.0.1:8000/app1/``` <http://127.0.0.1:8000/app1/> and view the > source, I see this in my HTML template: > > <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/main.css"> > > If I click on the href link, I get a page "Not Found" at the address ``` > http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/css/main.css``` > <http://127.0.0.1:8000/static/css/main.css>. This seems like it should > be the correct link but the template can't see the main.css stylesheet as I > would expect. > > Here are the relevant files in my 'mysite' project located in > /Users/me/projects/django/django-staticfiles: > > ├── app1 > │ ├── templates > │ │ └── app1 > │ │ └── index.html > ├── mysite > │ ├── settings.py > │ └── wsgi.py > ├── static > │ └── css > │ └── main.css > ├── static-final > │ ├── admin > │ │ ├── css > │ │ ├── fonts > │ │ ├── img > │ │ └── js > │ └── css > │ └── main.css > > Here are the relevant settings: > > # mysite/settings.py > ... > DEBUG = False > ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['127.0.0.1', ] > ... > INSTALLED_APPS = [ > 'django.contrib.staticfiles', > 'app1', > ] > ... > STATIC_URL = '/static/' > STATICFILES_DIRS = ( > os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static'), > ) > STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static-final/') > ... > > I installed Gunicorn into my virtual environment and run it with this > command: > > gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 mysite.wsgi > > I installed Nginx using Homebrew. Here is the part of nginx.conf that > includes my Nginx settings: > > # /usr/local/etc/nginx.conf > ... > http { > ... > server { > listen 8080; > server_name localhost; > } > ... > include server/*; > } > > Here is my Nginx configuration: > > # /usr/local/etc/nginx/servers/django-staticfiles > server { > listen 80; > server_name 127.0.0.1; > > location / { > proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000; > } > > location /static/ { > alias /Users/me/projects/django/django-staticfiles/static-final/; > } > } > > I should add that when I stop Gunicorn and start Django's development > server with DEBUG = True, the app1 template accesses the main.css file > correctly. It just can't see it when I'm running Gunicorn and Nginx. I > realize that I don't have a real need to run Gunicorn/Nginx on my Mac, but > I've just set it up so I can compare and contrast how Django manages static > files in development versus production. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/75f129a6-2dbf-47cc-b4ea-08008b30b047%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/75f129a6-2dbf-47cc-b4ea-08008b30b047%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Regards, Aldian Fazrihady http://aldianfazrihady.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAN7EoAbn3p8AcQoz3yygaqmdKz-X4Z84fZQrQcVh3Pm0eENkmA%40mail.gmail.com.
