Django nginx admin media

Question

I am currently testing moving from Apache mod_wsgi to Nginx and FastCGI

I have prepared the whole installation and currently testing it on a CentOS 5.4 box that runs Django 1.1.2

In my old Apache configuration I had and alias setup for /media/ and also one called /mediaadmin/

Which is displayed below.

Alias /media/ "/www/django_test1/omu2/media/"
<Directory "/www/django_test1/omu2/media">

Alias /mediaadmin/ "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/"
<Directory "/opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media">

How do I get the same type of setup for Nginx configuration, currently here is a snippet of what I have, even after restarting Nginx i still don't see my admin side resolving with the correct CSS, images etc.

server {
    location /media/ {
        root /www/django_test1/omu2;
    }
    location /mediaadmin/ {
        root /opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin;
    }
}

My settings.py

BASE_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
BASE_URL = '127.0.0.1'

MEDIA_ROOT = "%s/media/" % BASE_PATH
MEDIA_URL = "%s/media/" % BASE_URL
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = "%s/mediaadmin/" % BASE_URL

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 20 '11 at 12:07

Try the following config:

location /mediaadmin/ {
    alias /opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/;
    expires max;
    add_header Cache-Control public;
}

I changed the path to /django/contrib/admin/media/ as I guess our admin media files are in this folder as normal.

Hint: your MEDIA_ROOT and ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX sould be absolute.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 20 '11 at 12:28

I also found that the following line caused a lot of confusion

location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js|mov) {
            access_log   off;
            expires      30d; 
        }

I commented this out, and changed /mediaadmin/ from root to alias instead.

Django nginx admin media

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