Serving Django staticfiles via Nginx 404

I host my Djangoproject on Nginx with uwsgi. staticfiles need to be served separately by Nginx

server { 
    listen 80; 
    server_name blog.foo.de; 

    location /static { 
        root /home/user/blog/staticfiles; 
        access_log   off; 
        expires      30d; 
    } 

    location / {
       include uwsgi_params;
       uwsgi_pass unix:/tmp/blog.socket;
    }

    access_log      /var/log/nginx/blog.access.log combined;
    error_log       /var/log/nginx/blog.error.log warn;
}

My STATIC_URL is set to http://blog.foo.de/static/
The folder /home/user/blog/staticfiles contains a folder static, where the files are collected into. so according to other posts here everything sholud work — but it doesn’t. the uwsgi part works just fine, but I only get a 404 when I try to access the static files.

My answer:

This needs some general cleanup:

Your server block has two location / blocks, which is not permitted; one of them will be ignored. Use only one location block for any given location.
Your server block has no root defined. Make sure that root is defined only in the server block, and not in the location blocks (unless a location needs a different root).

I also recommend not turning off the access_log or using expires while debugging, as this can make it more difficult to isolate the cause of a problem.

Though to really fix this, consider rewriting it entirely. A very short example:

server {
    location @django {
        include uwsgi_params; 
        uwsgi_pass unix:/tmp/blog.socket; 
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ @django;
    }
}

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