Can Django run on Gunicorn alone (no Apache or nginx)?

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I have tried just about every django + nginx tutorial on the web and I cannot get an image file to display on the screen. It’s always the old story – 404 PAGE NOT FOUND. The web page loads fine but django.png in my /static/ folder does not. Not sure if it’s a problem in settings.py or with nginx.

I am so frustrated with it that I refuse to look at another “How to get nginx/django tutorial”. If I deploy a website in the near future will Gunicorn suffice to run a Django site and serve static files simultaneously without using Apache or nginx? Is there a big benefit to having a reverse proxy in the first place?

source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10862259/can-django-run-on-gunicorn-alone-no-apache-or-nginx
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