How to serve django media files via nginx ?

Question

I\'m new at Nginx, I\'ve successfully bound my django project to Nginx. However I can\'t serve my static files and I guess I set my media folder\'s location wrongly. Here is

Answer 1

Here's a example of how I have my nginx servers setup

server {
    server_name example.com www.example.com;
    location /static {
        autoindex on;
        alias /home/myusername/myproject/static/;
    }
    location /media {
        autoindex on;
        alias /home/myusername/myproject/media/;
    }
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
    }
}

I serve django with Gunicorn on localhost port 8000. (that's what the proxy_pass is for)

The Nginx wiki example configuration may help you too. Notice in their static file serving they specify allowed filetypes and use 'root' instead of 'alias' but they are similar.

This ServerFault question may help.

Answer 2

The following code works for me:

server {
    server_name example.com www.example.com;
    location /static {
        autoindex on;
        **alias /home/myusername/myproject/;**
    }
    location /media {
        autoindex on;
        **alias /home/myusername/myproject/;**
    }
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
    }
}

I bold the different parts according to the previous answer.