nginx serving Django static media | 502 bad gateway

Question

I\'m trying to serve Django static media through nginx, Here\'s my nginx.conf

server {
    listen       7777;
    listen       localhost:7777;
    server_name  e         


        

Answer 1

 502 bad gateway

is because apache has a problem (not restarted or something like that). You can check the apache server logs for info.

The problem is your /sites/mysite/staticmedia/ is being passed to apache and not served by nginx itself.

Your nginx media part has to be like this:

location /staticmedia/ {
    root /sites/mysite/;
    expires max;
    autoindex on
  }

This will access /sites/mysite/staticmedia/ on the filesystem.

That is, the path of location specified with location is a considered to be the part of the file system too. (I don't think this is good way either; but this is how nginx does it.)

You can leave the autoindex on, to help you during debug.