Hello Francis ,

Thank you for your help this far

what happened was I Set DEBUG=True in Django settings , and urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
this allowed the files to be served in a non secure setting

I'm back to where I started. I added to my config

location = /test-this/ { return 200 "Yes, this is correct\n"; }

I stopped and started nginx , and restarted the server

and then requesting http://www.sandyman.xyz/test-this/

I get the 404

Request URL:http://www.asandhu.xyz/test-this/
Request Method:GET
Status Code:404 NOT FOUND


I'm stuck again