I got it!!!<br><br>I had misunderstood the location /media/ function.<br><br>I thought that /media/ was a virtual name for the root string.<br>I see that in fact /media/ is a directory that must exist in the root.<br><br>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/.<br>
<br>Anyway this silly thing has helped me to understand nginx and its configuration a little better.<br><br>Thank you and best wishes.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/27 Igor Sysoev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:is@rambler-co.ru">is@rambler-co.ru</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:01:57AM +0000, equalium wrote:<br>
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> Hello, I'm setting up nginx to serve a django site. The django part goes OK but<br>
> I have a problem with my media directory. I'm using this:<br>
><br>
> location /media/ {<br>
> š šroot š /home/django/domains/myapp/static/;<br>
> }<br>
><br>
> ...<br>
><br>
> The problem is that I can access that directory and any html file directly<br>
> inside but not other directories or images.<br>
<br>
</div>Probably, you have also something like this:<br>
<br>
š šlocation ~ \.(gif|png|jpg|css|js)$ {<br>
<br>
You may delete it if it is not needed, or may disable regex tests for /media/:<br>
<br>
š šlocation ^~ /media/ {<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> For example, my directories are like this:<br>
><br>
> ./domains<br>
> ...myapp<br>
> ......static<br>
> .........CSS<br>
> .........images<br>
> .........js<br>
> .........hello.html<br>
> .........image.png<br>
><br>
> I have the option "autoindex on;", so when I access: <a href="http://mydomain/media/" target="_blank">http://mydomain/media/</a> I see:<br>
><br>
> Index of /media/<br>
> ../<br>
> hello.html<br>
><br>
> Does anybody know what can be wrong?<br>
<br>
</div>Do you see in the listing just index.html without image.png, etc. ?<br>
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