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 Sysoev

> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:01:57AM +0000, equalium wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> 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/ {
>
> > 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?
>
> Do you see in the listing just index.html without image.png, etc. ?
>
>
> --
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>
>