Nginx 404 File not found error for django static files - nginx

Question

I'm getting below error while trying to access static files files, though I'm trying to accessa static/js/main.js file, nginx is looking for static/js/main.js/index.html.. below is the error for the same.
2016/01/20 03:31:01 [error] 2410#0: *1
"/home/ubuntu/vnv/near/near/static/js/main.js/index.html" is not
found (20: Not a directory), client: 162.111.50.122, server: my.domain.com, request: "GET /static/js/main.js/ HTTP/1.1", host: "my.domain.com"
Below is my server block..
server {
listen 80;
server_name my.domain.com;
# location ~ ^/(static/.*) {
location ~ /static {
root /home/ubuntu/vnv/near/near; # near consist of static directory
}
location ~ / {
proxy_headers_hash_max_size 51200;
proxy_headers_hash_bucket_size 6400;
proxy_pass http://near_server;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
}
}
Also it is appending / at the end of the URI, what could be the issue here?
Note: I've gone through most of the answers related to this, but I coudn't find proper solution for this situation.

Answer 1

If the request URI ends in a /, nginx will treat it as a directory and apply the indexing rules. Unless overridden, nginx looks for an index.html file.
From the error message we see that the GET request was for /static/js/main.js/. So the question is who appended the / to the request URI?
If you now look into the access log, you will see a line containing GET /static/js/main.js/ HTTP/1.1 404 which lists the HTTP response code.
If the line above contains GET /static/js/main.js HTTP/1.1 3xx then nginx added the extra /. If there is no such line, then the client asked for the wrong URL and you need to be looking for the solution to the problem elsewhere.
Unrelated to your question: Why are you using regular expression location blocks when prefix location blocks seem more appropriate?
You should probably be using:
location /static { ... }
location / { ... }
Your existing configuration is inefficient and matches URIs with /static embedded anywhere within the string, such as: /something/static.php.
See this document for location syntax and the processing rules.