Static files are not found when running django + gunicorn + nginx on docker

Question

I know it's well answered question but non of ones I've found seems to work for me. I have simple django project and I'm trying to run it on Docker with gunicorn and nginx. Below is my configuration

Dockerfile

# Pull base image
FROM python:3.6-slim

# Set environment varibles
ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
ENV DATABASE_HOST db

# Set work directory
ARG PROJECT=my_project
ARG PROJECT_DIR=/var/www/${PROJECT}

RUN mkdir -p $PROJECT_DIR

# Copy project
COPY my_project $PROJECT_DIR/
COPY docker-entrypoint.sh /
RUN chmod u+x /docker-entrypoint.sh
# give permission for nginx to read static files
RUN chown -R "$USER":www-data /var/www/my_project/allstatic && chmod -R 0755 /var/www/my_project/allstatic

WORKDIR $PROJECT_DIR
EXPOSE 8000
ENTRYPOINT ["/docker-entrypoint.sh"]

docker-entrypoint.sh

#!/bin/bash

apt-get update
apt-get install -y git 
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py collectstatic --noinput
python manage.py migrate --no-input
touch ./logs/gunicorn.log
touch ./logs/gunicorn-access.log
tail -n 0 -f ./logs/gunicorn*.log &

gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 my_project.wsgi:application --log-level=info --log-file=./logs/gunicorn.log --access-logfile=./logs/gunicorn-access.log 

exec "$@"

docker-compose.yml

version: '3.6'

services:
  db:
  image: postgres:10.5-alpine
volumes:
  - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data/
environment:
  - POSTGRES_USER=user
  - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=some_some
  - POSTGRES_DB=database
networks:
  - database_network

app:
  build: .
  volumes:
    - .:/var/www
    - static_volume:/var/www/my_project/allstatic
  depends_on:
    - db
  networks:
    - nginx_network
    - database_network

nginx:
  image: nginx:1.13
  ports:
    - 8000:8000
  volumes:
    - ./config/nginx/conf.d:/etc/nginx/conf.d
    - static_volume:/var/www/my_project/allstatic
  depends_on:
    - app
  networks:
    - nginx_network

networks:
  nginx_network:
    driver: bridge
  database_network:
    driver: bridge

volumes:
  postgres_data:
  static_volume:

nginx config

upstream develop_server {
    server app:8000;
}

server {
    listen 8000;
    server_name localhost;

    location / {
        proxy_read_timeout 300;
        proxy_pass http://develop_server;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }

    location /static/ {
        autoindex on;
        alias /var/www/my_project/allstatic;
    }
}

in project settings I've defined STATIC_URL and STATIC_ROOT as

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'allstatic/')
STATIC_URL = STATIC_ROOT

And here is error I'm getting

app_1  | Not Found: /var/www/my_project/allstatic/really_important_file.js
nginx_1    | 172.22.0.1 - - [23/Sep/2018:11:55:26 +0000] "GET /var/www/my_project/allstatic/really_important_file.js HTTP/1.1" 404 3132 "http://localhost:8000/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0" "-"

Beside this error whole page loads without problem. Also, when I run server with manage.py runserver statics are served propertly, hence I suspect my nginx configuration is somehow wrong. Answers I was able to find suggested to change a permission for nginx on static directory what is done in Dockerfile (or maybe it's done wrong?).

I'd be very grateful for pointing out what I've missed.

UPDATE

It's definetly not a permission issue - I'm able to reach this file by going to localhost:8000/static/really_important_file.js in my webbrowser. Now I really have no idea what may be causing those errors.

Solution

The problem was with settings of django application and not nginx after all. I've specified STATIC_URL as STATIC_ROOT which was pointing at absolute path to folder which was containing static files. As I understand, when page was loaded and tried to resolve urls of scripts based on {{ static }} tag it ended up looking for this absolute path which obviously could not be process by nginx. I've changed it so STATIC_URL = '/static/' and everything works as should.