Django: how to make STATIC_URL empty?

Question

Yep, I want it to work like in Flask framework - there I could set parameters like this:

static_folder=os.getcwd()+\"/static/\", static_url_path=\"\"

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Answer 1

This is really easy to accomplish with Nginx using try_files. Using the pseudo-settings below will make Nginx try to find a static file first, and if it fails then execution is passed to your django app.

server {
  ...
  root /some/path/to/assets/;
  try_files $uri @django;

  location @django {
    ...
    proxy_pass  http://unix:/some/path/to/server.sock;
  }
}

Example: The file /some/path/to/assets/myfile.ext will be available as http://mydomain/myfile.ext