Help- can't see subdirectories for static content location

Hello, I’m setting up nginx to serve a django site. The django part goes
OK but
I have a problem with my media directory. I’m using this:

location /media/ {
root /home/django/domains/myapp/static/;
}

The problem is that I can access that directory and any html file
directly
inside but not other directories or images.

For example, my directories are like this:

./domains
…myapp
…static
…CSS
…images
…js
…hello.html
…image.png

I have the option “autoindex on;”, so when I access:
http://mydomain/media/ I see:

Index of /media/
…/
hello.html

Does anybody know what can be wrong?

Thanks for any suggestion.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:01:57AM +0000, equalium wrote:

inside but not other directories or images.
Probably, you have also something like this:

location ~ \.(gif|png|jpg|css|js)$ {

You may delete it if it is not needed, or may disable regex tests for
/media/:

location ^~ /media/ {

I have the option “autoindex on;”, so when I access: http://mydomain/media/ I see:

Index of /media/
…/
hello.html

Does anybody know what can be wrong?

Do you see in the listing just index.html without image.png, etc. ?

Hi,

I have nothing for (gif|png…)
I have just tried your suggestion: "location ^~ /media/ " but isn’t
still
working.

Thank for your quick reply. From your last question (yes, I only see one
.html file) I have discovered something weird. I have added more files
to
the directory, even more .html files and I can’t see none of them so I
guess
it must a problem about user:group permissions or cache (I have no
“expires”
option at the config file) or whatever else.

I have created most of the files not directly on the server but in a nfs
mount on an ubuntu client (it’s a intranet), although now I have created
some directly on the host but don’t work either.
I have restarted both nginx and apache to be sure.
Well I’ll keep investigating as I’m relatively new to linux and will
post
the solution once I find it.

I’m excited for having discovered nginx and for your helpful assistance.
I welcome any other suggestion to try although it seems not to be an
nginx
issue.

Thank you and greetings from Barcelona.

Carlos.

2009/3/27 Igor S. [email protected]

I got it!!!

I had misunderstood the location /media/ function.

I thought that /media/ was a virtual name for the root string.
I see that in fact /media/ is a directory that must exist in the root.

What confused me was that in fact, trying and trying, I had created a
media
folder and copied one html file into it but I forgot about that. So, I
thougth that I was seeing only that html from the /static/ dir while I
was
seeing the copy at /static/media/.

Anyway this silly thing has helped me to understand nginx and its
configuration a little better.

Thank you and best wishes.

2009/3/27 Igor S. [email protected]

Carlos a écrit :

I got it!!!

I had misunderstood the location /media/ function.

I thought that /media/ was a virtual name for the root string.
I see that in fact /media/ is a directory that must exist in the root.

You can use alias if you don’t want to create a media folder in your
static
directory.

2009/3/27 Jean-Philippe M. [email protected]

directory.

Merci, Jean-Philippe. “alias”, that’s what I wanted at first. Merci
beaucoup.