I have a problem with static files in my Django application.
I create a simple blog app with Django REST Framework and Angular 6. It's working fine in my local development environment, but I have a problem with deploying it to production. The thing is, the app is loading (I know that because the root route is a redirection to /app and I am being redirected correctly) but there are no static files loaded.
Here is part of my configuration related to the static files:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
BASE_DIR = os.path.join(
os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)), '..', '..', '..'
)
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'app', 'static')
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'frontend'),
]
INSTALLED_APPS = [
...
'django.contrib.staticfiles'
...
]
The paths are correct, I triple-checked them to be sure. And here are routes configured in Django application:
urlpatterns = [
url('^api/', include(api_patterns)),
url('^admin/', admin.site.urls),
url('^app/', serve, kwargs={'path': 'index.html'}),
url('^$', HomepageView.as_view(), name='homepage-redirection'),
]
I am able to run manage.py collectstatic without any errors and all static files are correctly copied to the static directory. Static files for admin application are not loaded correctly as well. Here is a rough structure of directories in my project:
├── app
│ └── (python code here)
├── frontend
│ └── (angular code here)
├── media
│ └── (empty for now)
└── static
└── (static files for Django)
The application server is nginx with Phusion Passenger (this was configured by my the company I rent the server from). I don't really know what else I can add here. Does anyone have any idea what can be wrong here? Maybe some hint would be the fact that the API endpoints are not accessible. I have access to admin application, but not to API (both configured in the same urls file).
