Re: Noobe alert

Hey and thanks for the post, I actually posted this back on saturday and I figured it out, actually the way you are saying but it wasn't the permissions. I had to much info, the url going into nginx had two static  directories next to each other, at first I tried to remove one but I decided to go with an empty string for STATIC_ROOT and that was it. No problems now, (basically follow the docs) duhh. But thanks I appreciate the post. 

--jerry

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Chris Cogdon <chris@cogdon.org> wrote:

Check the error log for nginx to see if there's any hint of why the statics aren't showing up.

My best guess is that the web server is running as a user that does not have access to the files, and the error log should be showing up with various "permission denied" messages.

The usual culprit is that while the static directory and files are readable by everyone, the parent directories do not have the "execute" permission bit set. On a directory "execute" means the ability to trasverse the directory and get access to the contents, but not get a directory listing.

To fix, try something like this:

chmod a+x /var /var/www /var/www/virtualenv-test /var/www/virtualenv-test/ENV /var/www/virtualenv-test/ENV/testsite /var/www/virtualenv-test/ENV/testsite/static

On Saturday, November 17, 2012 11:28:01 AM UTC-8, Gerald Klein wrote:

Hi, I finally got a project in Django and I have a "what I hope is an easy question" I started to set up a production server and yes the admin css dissappeared, I went though the docs and followed them. I used the Collect Static Files method and still no joy. Here is my info: 

#settings.py

MEDIA_ROOT = '/var/www/virtualenv-test/ENV/testsite/media/'

MEDIA_URL = 'http://localhost/media/'

STATIC_ROOT = '/var/www/virtualenv-test/ENV/testsite/static/'

STATIC_URL = 'http://localhost/static/'

#niginx

    root /var/www/virtualenv-test/ENV/testsite;

    location /media/ {

        root /var/www/virtualenv-test/ENV/testsite/media;

    }

    location /static/ {

        root /var/www/virtualenv-test/ENV/testsite/static;

    }

My project is located in /var/www/virtualenv-test/ENV/

the project is testsite so the hierarchy inside ENV is:

testsite/

        media/

        static/all files from collect static files

        testsite/

                __init__.py

                settings.py

                urls.py

                wsgi.py

        manage.py

I am using version (1, 4, 2, 'final', 0). 

If somebody can point out the probably obvious problem that I am missing I would greatly appreciate it. 

thanks in advance for your help

--jerry

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