Pinax with gunicorn and nginx not serving static assets

Question

hi trying to get a nginx+gunicorn+django site up and running /it works well in development mode no errors or anything.configured the nginx for deployment with the following params

    upstream my-backend {
    server localhost:8000 fail_timeout=0;
}

server {
    listen 80;

    root /home/wakwanza/Cod/NP/ASUT;

    keepalive_timeout 5;

    location /site_media/ {
    autoindex on;
        access_log off;
    }

    location /static/  {
    autoindex on;
        access_log off;
    }

    location / {
        proxy_set_header   Host             $host;
        proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   REMOTE_HOST      $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header   X-FORWARDED-PROTOCOL $scheme;

    proxy_redirect off;

        proxy_pass http://my-backend;
    }
}

my gunicorn is being called from within the django app with: python manage.py run_gunicorn i did this after collecting my static files into .../ASUT/site_media/static only works in the dev mode tho . i have tried substituting the location directive with

    location /static/  {
    autoindex on;
        access_log off;
alias /home/wakwanza/Cod/NP/ASUT/site_media/;
    }

but my static assets are still not geting served all css/js/img folders arent getting seen for the normal site however for the admin section they show up ok.

Answer 1

sorted it by changing in settings.conf

STATIC_URL = "/static/"

and nginx.conf to

upstream app_server {
    server localhost:8000 fail_timeout=0;
    # For a TCP configuration:
    # server 192.168.0.7:8000 fail_timeout=0;
}

server {
    listen 80 default;
    client_max_body_size 4G;
    server_name _;

    keepalive_timeout 5;

    # path for static files
    #root /home/wakwanza/Cod/NP/ASUT/site_media/static;

    location /static/ {    
    autoindex on;    
    alias   /home/wakwanza/Cod/NP/ASUT/site_media/static/;    
    }

    location / {
        # checks for static file, if not found proxy to app
        try_files $uri @proxy_to_app;
    }

    location @proxy_to_app {
        proxy_pass_header Server;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_redirect off;

        proxy_pass   http://app_server;
    }

    error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html;

}