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Figure 8-5. Broken CSS
Getting Nginx to Serve Static Files
First we run collectstatic to copy all the static files to a folder where Nginx can find
them:
:$ ../virtualenv/bin/python3 manage.py collectstatic --noinput
:$ ls ../static/
base.css bootstrap
Note that, again, instead of using the virtualenv activate command, we can use the
direct path to the virtualenv’s copy of Python instead.
Now we tell Nginx to start serving those static files for us:
server: /etc/nginx/sites-available/superlists-staging.ottg.eu.
server {
listen 80 ;
server_name superlists-staging.ottg.eu;
location /static {
alias /home/elspeth/sites/superlists-staging.ottg.eu/static;
}
location / {
proxy_pass :8000;
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