server {
        listen          68.688.688.688:80;
        server_name     my_server_name;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/app-cartridge-access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/app-cartridge-error.log;

        location / {
            uwsgi_pass      unix:///tmp/my_app.sock;
            include         uwsgi_params;
            uwsgi_param     UWSGI_SCHEME $scheme;
            uwsgi_param     SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;
        }
}

gunicorn my_project.wsgi -b 68.688.688.688:8000

pip freeze | grep Django
Django==1.6.4

2014-05-05 12:08:52 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /gallery/
2014-05-05 12:08:52 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /static/media/uploads/galleries/12.jpg
2014-05-05 12:08:52 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /static/media/uploads/galleries/10.jpg
2014-05-05 12:09:28 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /gallery/
2014-05-05 12:09:28 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /static/css/bootstrap.css
2014-05-05 12:09:28 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /static/css/mezzanine.css
2014-05-05 12:09:28 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /static/css/bootstrap-theme.css
2014-05-05 12:09:28 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /static/css/cartridge.css
2014-05-05 12:09:28 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /static/mezzanine/css/magnific-popup.css
2014-05-05 12:09:28 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /static/mezzanine/js/jquery-1.7.1.min.js
2014-05-05 12:09:28 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /static/js/bootstrap.js
2014-05-05 12:09:29 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /static/js/bootstrap-extras.js
2014-05-05 12:09:29 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /static/mezzanine/js/magnific-popup.js
2014-05-05 12:09:29 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /static/media/uploads/galleries/12.jpg
2014-05-05 12:09:29 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /static/media/uploads/galleries/10.jpg
2014-05-05 12:09:29 [1214] [DEBUG] GET /static/fonts/glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

Page not found (404)
Request Method:    GET
Request URL:    http://68.688.688.688:8585/static/media/uploads/galleries/12.jpg
'media/uploads/galleries/12.jpg' could not be found
You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page.

$ ls -l static/media/uploads/galleries/*
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 66407 May  4 21:28 static/media/uploads/galleries/10.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 78534 May  4 21:29 static/media/uploads/galleries/12.jpg

sudo -u www-data -g www-data gunicorn my_project.wsgi --bind 68.688.688.688:8585 --log-level  debug

http://68.688.688.688:8585/static/media/uploads/galleries/10.jpg

Page not found (404)
Request Method:    GET
Request URL:    http://68.688.688.688:8585/static/media/uploads/galleries/10.jpg
'media/uploads/galleries/10.jpg' could not be found
You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page.

2014-05-05 12:47:58 [7318] [INFO] Starting gunicorn 18.0
2014-05-05 12:47:58 [7318] [DEBUG] Arbiter booted
2014-05-05 12:47:58 [7318] [INFO] Listening at: http://68.688.688.688:8585 (7318)
2014-05-05 12:47:58 [7318] [INFO] Using worker: sync
2014-05-05 12:47:58 [7323] [INFO] Booting worker with pid: 7323
2014-05-05 12:48:30 [7323] [DEBUG] GET /static/media/uploads/galleries/10.jpg

server {
        listen          68.688.688.688:80;
        server_name     any-server.com;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/as-access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/as-error.log;



        #to enable correct use of response.static_version
###        location ~* /(\w+)/static(?:/_[\d]+.[\d]+.[\d]+)?/(.*)$ {
        #    expires max;
###        }
###        location ~* /(\w+)/static/ {
###            root /home/xxxxxxxx/py/xxx/xxxxxx/;
###            #remove next comment on production
###            expires max;
###        }
        location / {
#            uwsgi_pass      127.0.0.1:9090;
            uwsgi_pass      unix:///tmp/wig.sock;
            include         uwsgi_params;
            uwsgi_param     UWSGI_SCHEME $scheme;
            uwsgi_param     SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;
        }
}