I have followed instruction for setting up django with nginx from the django wiki (https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoAndNginx) and have nginx setup as follows (a few name changes to fit my setup).

    user  nginx nginx;

worker_processes  2;

error_log /var/log/nginx/error_log info;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
    use epoll;
}

http {
    include     /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type    application/octet-stream;

    log_format main
        '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
            '"$request" $status $bytes_sent '
        '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" '
        '"$gzip_ratio"';

    client_header_timeout   10m;
    client_body_timeout 10m;
    send_timeout        10m;

    connection_pool_size        256;
    client_header_buffer_size   1k;
    large_client_header_buffers 4 2k;
    request_pool_size       4k;

    gzip on;
    gzip_min_length 1100;
    gzip_buffers    4 8k;
    gzip_types  text/plain;

    output_buffers  1 32k;
    postpone_output 1460;

    sendfile    on;
    tcp_nopush  on;
    tcp_nodelay on;

    keepalive_timeout   75 20;

    ignore_invalid_headers  on;
    index index.html;

    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name localhost;
        location /static/  {
            root /srv/static/; 
        }
        location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js|mov) {
            access_log   off;
            expires      30d; 
        }
        location / {
            # host and port to fastcgi server
            fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8080;
            fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
            fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
            fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
            fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
            fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
            fastcgi_pass_header Authorization;
            fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
            fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
            }
        access_log  /var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log main;
        error_log   /var/log/nginx/localhost.error_log;
    }
}

Static files aren't being served (nginx 404). If I look in the access log it seems nginx is looking in /etc/nginx/html/static... rather than /srv/static/ as specified in the config.

I've no clue why it's doing this, any help would be hugely appreciated.