Nginx hosted uwsgi django app: only accessible via curl, not by browser - django

Question

I'm hosting a Django app using uwsgi and nginx.
If I call curl -v my_ip:port it connects. If I direct a browser towards my_ip:port it returns a ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED and the connection doesn't show up in the log.
uWSGI:
file : data_collection_project.ini
[uwsgi]
project = data_collection_project
base = /data_nfs/data_collection_project
chdir = %(base)
# /%(project)
home = /home/rootadmin/.virtualenvs/data_collection
#plugins = python
#module = data_collection_project.wsgi:application
module = data_collection_project.wsgi:application
master = true
processes = 2
socket = %(base)/%(project).sock
chmod-socket = 666
nginx:
file: /etc/nginx/sites-available
# mysite_nginx.conf
# the upstream component nginx needs to connect to
upstream django {
server unix:///data_nfs/data_collection_project/data_collection_project.sock; # for a file socket
#server 127.0.0.1:8001; # for a web port socket (we'll use this first)
}
# configuration of the server
server {
# the port your site will be served on
listen 8433;
# the domain name it will serve for
server_name my_ip; # substitute your machine's IP address or FQDN
charset utf-8;
# max upload size
client_max_body_size 75M; # adjust to taste
# Django media
location /media {
alias /data_nfs/data_collection_project/media; # your Django project's media files - amend as requir$ }
location /static {
alias /data_nfs/data_collection_project/static; # your Django project's static files - amend as requi$ }
# Finally, send all non-media requests to the Django server.
location / {
uwsgi_pass django;
include /data_nfs/data_collection_project/uwsgi_params; # the uwsgi_params file you installed
}
}
In my understanding, this should make the website available over my_ip for outside browsers, but it isn't. I don't understand why. What am I missing?
EDIT: If I switch off uwsgi and then try to call the ip:port there is an errorlog added to /var/log/nginx/error.log connect () to unix:///...sock failed. (111:connection refused) This error makes sense, since uwsgi isn't handling the socket. This seems to mean that nginx is working, and does pass the request along to the socket when i do curl my_ip:port?

Answer 1

I'm not 100% sure but per your EDIT it seems that nginx is passing correctly. Maybe Django's ALLOWED_HOSTS? I'd follow these steps:
Make sure that data_collection_project.ini is the one ini used (maybe try command line arguments instead of an ini file as a one of test).
Add deamonize to your data_collection_project.ini to make uwsgi log to a file.
Check if it's not Django that is dropping your connection.