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Maarten
Maarten

Reputation: 663

Google Flexible Environment django gunicorn nginx static files

Running a Django project Google Flexible Environment with Gunicorn as entry-point so that I can use geventworkers. Cant seem to figure out how to server the static files properly. I have set STATIC_URL = '/static/' and STATIC_ROOT = 'static' in Django settings. I've also ran manage.py collectstatic and the files do get copied correctly, yet my django rest framework swagger cant find its files.

For the convenience I had already added TEMPLATES to my settings as well. This used to work before I started using geventworkers.

Im trying to get nginx to serve the files, but I cant seem to edit the nginx config. Of the docker that it runs by default.

TEMPLATES = [
    {
        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
        'DIRS': [
            'rest_framework.templates',
            'rest_framework_swagger.templates',
            os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'website'),
        ],
        'APP_DIRS': True,
        'OPTIONS': {
            'context_processors': [
                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                'django.template.context_processors.request',
                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
            ],
        },
    }
]

Upvotes: 1

Views: 326

Answers (1)

komarkovich
komarkovich

Reputation: 2319

Gunicorn doesn't serve static content, so you have to create a Google Cloud Storage bucket to serve static content.

Create a bucket and upload the static files. 

gsutil mb gs://<your-gcs-bucket>
gsutil defacl set public-read gs://<your-gcs-bucket>
gsutil rsync -R static/ gs://<your-gcs-bucket>/static

In settings.py set the value of STATIC_URL as following:

STATIC_URL = 'https://storage.googleapis.com/<your-gcs-bucket>/static/'

You can folow step by step guide to see how to deploy the app to the App Engine flexible environment.

Upvotes: 1

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