django : Serving static files through nginx

Question

I\'m using apache+mod_wsgi for django.
And all css/js/images are served through nginx.
For some odd reason, when others/friends/colleagues try accessing

Answer 1

I also struggled with this. However, following trick worked for me:

server {   
     listen   8000;   
     server_name  localhost;

     access_log  /var/log/nginx/aa8000.access.log;    
     error_log  /var/log/nginx/aa8000.error.log;    

       location / {   
           index  index.html index.htm;    
       }    

     location ^/static/ {    
        autoindex on;    
        root   /opt/aa/webroot/;    
     }    
 } 

I just marked static as a regex with ^ and nginx started serving static files. No modification on Django side was needed.