Django Rest Framework deployed under subdirectory proxy urlpattern missmatch - django

Question

I'm trying to deploy a small API using a subdirectory on the server. Usually if I do the following config it works fine:
location /iframe/api/ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
client_max_body_size 0;
}
The funny thing is that for static files it seems to work, because I get back proper styling for the rest framework, but for every single urlpattern it also transfers the iframe/api which isn't ideal and basically not a single API route is matched.
I tried to add proxy_redirect off but still no avail. Any idea why isn't this working as expected? How should I deploy a rest framework API under a sub-directory?
Also tried to use FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME='/iframe/api', however I still get the same issue that the URL isn't matched The current path, iframe/api/, didn’t match any of these.

Answer 1

After quite a few hours spend debugging I was able to solve it kinda, but it required multiple ways to do it. If you have better solution feel free to post it!
First you need the trailing / for proxy_pass so the /iframe/api isn't transfered.
location /iframe/api/ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001/;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
client_max_body_size 0;
}
This solved that part that the URLs wasn't being matched. For some strange reason I wasn't able to solve the static file sharing directly trough the reverse proxy, so what I ended up was to bind both media and static files to a volume on the main machine and serve them with alias
location /media {
alias /home/user/path_to_media/media;
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location /static {
alias /home/user/path_to_media/static;
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
You also need to set the FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME in the settings file otherwise the urls generated by the rest framework won't work properly.