How to force nginx to find static files?

Question

Django

There is a project on django, which is located on the amazon ec2 server and I can't connect statics to it. The project itself is located in /home/user/projectname/, the statics are in /home/user/projectname/app/static, and the code for the host settings is

server {
listen       80;

location /static {
    alias /home/user/projectname/app/static;
}

location / {
    proxy_pass http://localhost:8000;
}

Tried to change alias to

alias /home/mrukhlov/lingsite/inputs/staticstorage;

and alias /home/mrukhlov/static;, but it did not help, despite the fact that earlier the project was on the vds-server and there were no problems with this.

Answer 1

Moving from /home/ folder helped.

Answer 2

collectstatic did?