Django using Nginx to serve static content

Question

I am trying to configure nginx to serve the static content for my django project on a remote VPS. I'm using the following configuration for my nginx instance:

server {
    server_name myVPSip;

    access_log off;

    location /static/ {
        alias /usr/local/pcat/static/;
    }

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        add_header P3P 'CP="ALL DSP COR PSAa PSDa OUR NOR ONL UNI COM NAV"';
    }
}

I created the config file in ../nginx/sites-available/, linked it to /sites-enabled/, and restarted nginx however when I hit myip:8001/static I get a django 404.

Answer 1

You shouldn't access your website by 123.123.123.123:8001 because that's the port django is using. You are supposed to access 123.123.123.123 (that is port 80) where nginx is running.