How to deploy django on VPS with external subdomain.? - django

Question

Good day.
I have a web app that I have developed using django. I tested fine on my local, and I'm happy with how it works.
However I'm facing an issue bringing it online I used those two guides to reach my deployment:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-16-04
and
http://michal.karzynski.pl/blog/2013/06/09/django-nginx-gunicorn-virtualenv-supervisor/
However my page is giving me a forbidden page.
I suspect my issue is with the way I'm handling the subdomain. So the site . has been developed using php, and I have worked on my part with django and been provided with a subdomain which is member.domain.com, So I'm deploying it on the VPS and have to make it use the subdomain.
This is how my allowed hosts looks in the settings.py
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['member.domain.com']
and
in my nginx:
upstream app_server {
# fail_timeout=0 means we always retry an upstream even if it failed
# to return a good HTTP response (in case the Unicorn master nukes a
# single worker for timing out).
server unix:/home/path/project/run/gunicorn.sock fail_timeout=0;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name member.domain.com;
client_max_body_size 4G;
access_log /home/path/project/logs/nginx-access.log;
error_log /home/path/project/logs/nginx-error.log;
location /static/ {
alias /home/path/project/src/static/;
}
location /media/ {
alias /home/path/project/src/media/;
}
location / {
# an HTTP header important enough to have its own Wikipedia entry:
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
# enable this if and only if you use HTTPS, this helps Rack
# set the proper protocol for doing redirects:
# proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
# pass the Host: header from the client right along so redirects
# can be set properly within the Rack application
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
# we don't want nginx trying to do something clever with
# redirects, we set the Host: header above already.
proxy_redirect off;
# set "proxy_buffering off" *only* for Rainbows! when doing
# Comet/long-poll stuff. It's also safe to set if you're
# using only serving fast clients with Unicorn + nginx.
# Otherwise you _want_ nginx to buffer responses to slow
# clients, really.
# proxy_buffering off;
# Try to serve static files from nginx, no point in making an
# *application* server like Unicorn/Rainbows! serve static files.
if (!-f $request_filename) {
proxy_pass http://app_server;
break;
}
}
# Error pages
error_page 502 503 504 /500.html;
location = /500.html {
root /home/path/project/src/static/;
}
}
I'm not sure what I am doing wrong.
I will appreciate any help

Answer 1

To respond to 'example.com' and any subdomains, start the domain with a dot
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['.example.com', '203.0.113.5']
I didn't even try how to run django on subdomains, but from article link you shared, you missed some configuration in your settings.py
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['member.domain.com']
Changed
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['.domain.com']
Hope this will solve your problem