Re: Trying understand static files.

Thanks that helps with the nginx configure file. But what I don't
understand is how the template tells nginx what to serve? There has to
be some sort of black magic here! As I understand the process - the
client asks for a page - django routes via urls - it finds the template
and processes it - uses the static file location - django grabs the
static file and sends it. How does Nginx know what to do?

Being a newbie - I'd like to understand why I'm adding a 'locaiton' and
how the nginx becomes aware that it is needed.

On 04/22/2015 04:47 PM, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
> Oh my aching head and static files.
>
> STATIC_URL points to the namespace that the files will be served from:
> eg mydomain.com/static
> To set this up, in nginx/apache you need a stanza that looks like:
>
> location /static {
> alias /var/www/trees/opentrees/static;
> }
>
> STATIC_ROOT is where those files are served from - in this case,
> /var/www/trees/opentrees/static
> This is also where collectstatic *puts* the files it finds when it's
> run. This directory, apparently (I discovered last night), should
> never
> be in your version control (git, svn, hg)
>
> STATICFILES_DIRS *is* in your version control. Each of these
> directories should be listed. This is where collectstatic *finds*
> static files to copy to STATIC_ROOT,
> Your proj/app structure looks like this:
>
> proj/static
> proj/app/static
>
> Add each of these to STATICFILES_DIRS.
>
> Admin, and other pip installed apps, will automatically be included (I think).
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> cheers
> L.
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> On 23 April 2015 at 09:35, john <johnf@jfcomputer.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have created a website that works well under "runserver". But when I use
>> nginx and uwsgi the basic website comes up but it is missing the static file
>> information. I have run "manage.py collectstatic" but still no static files
>> are used.
>>
>> Reading the Django doc's tells me that I need the webserver to serve the
>> static files. Ok I think I can do that (maybe). But I don't understand
>> completely. In my templates I have links like:
>> <link href = "{% static 'css/bootstrap.min.css' %}" rel="stylesheet">
>>
>> How does the nginx server understand to provide the css file for my html
>> page from the code above?
>>
>> I read that I can add a 'location' in the nginx config file but don't
>> understand how nginx would understand to provide it when my template is
>> called.
>>
>> Thanks for the help in advance.
>>
>> Johnf
>>
>>
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