[Answered ]-Getting Nginx to serve static content in front of Django local server

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Thanks all – I’ve got it working, here’s my working testdev conf:

server {
    root /<path-to-django-site>;
    server_name testdev.com;
    gzip            off;
    autoindex       on;

    proxy_set_header Host $host;

    location /static/ {
        add_header X-Static hit;
    }

    location / {
        proxy_pass       http://127.0.0.1:8000;

    }
}

Looks like the location block takes the server root path if you don’t supply one. Now when I curl:

curl -I  http://testdev.com/static/js/utils.js
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.2.6
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:36:07 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-javascript
Content-Length: 2730
Last-Modified: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:54:10 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
X-Static: hit
Accept-Ranges: bytes

Many thanks @Evgeny – got me on the right lines. Miget be useful for others looking to do the same.

👤professorDante

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