Great repo. One question

[Cally99]

I've just pulled this repo. I'm trying to get my own project running with a similar setup so when I run docker compose on and ec2 instance with daphne and gunicorn.
I was just wondering about static files. Does nginx serve static files from django?

I build the repo and got this error Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./manage.py", line 15, in
execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 381, in execute_from_command_line
utility.execute()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 375, in execute
self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 316, in run_from_argv
self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 353, in execute
output = self.handle(*args, **options)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 188, in handle
collected = self.collect()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/management/commands/collectstatic.py", line 105, in collect
for path, storage in finder.list(self.ignore_patterns):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/finders.py", line 125, in list
for path in utils.get_files(storage, ignore_patterns):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/utils.py", line 23, in get_files
directories, files = storage.listdir(location)
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/django/core/files/storage.py", line 313, in listdir
for entry in os.listdir(path):
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/app/backend/server/staticfiles'

[pplonski]

Static files are served with nginx, from docker-compose

    nginx:
        restart: always
        image: nginx:1.12-alpine
        ports:
            - 8000:8000
        volumes:
            - ./docker/nginx/default.conf:/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
            - static_volume:/app/backend/server/django_static

The static_volume is pointing to /app/backend/server/django_static in django_static directory you should have your static files. You should set it in settings.py:

simple-tasks/backend/server/server/settings.py

Line 154 in ae759a8

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'django_static')

[pplonski]

From your error I see that you have staticfiles as static dir. You should update docker-compose and it should (have to) work.