Setup pretty local development URLs with nginx on Mac OS X - django

Question

I have a Django server setup that I can access from 127.0.0.1:8000
I have just installed nginx on to Mac OS X Yosemite and can access the 'Welcome to nginx' screen at localhost:80
I want to be able to set up a local development environment on local.ingledow.co.uk but when I visit that URL, it redirects me to my live site: david.ingledow.co.uk.
I did have a wildcard URL forwarder with DNSimple that would redirect like this:
*.ingledow.co.uk > david.ingledow.co.uk
but I have removed that.
I have added this CNAME: local.ingledow.co.uk > 127.0.0.1
This shouldn't affect how I setup my local nginx servers.
So, how do I create an nginx server on Mac that shows my 127.0.0.1:8000 Django project on to a custom domain (local.ingledow.co.uk).
This is my nginx setup:
Default Nginx config at /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
#user nobody;
worker_processes 1;
#error_log logs/error.log;
#error_log logs/error.log notice;
#error_log logs/error.log info;
#pid logs/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
#log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
# '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
# '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
#access_log logs/access.log main;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
#keepalive_timeout 0;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#gzip on;
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
#charset koi8-r;
#access_log logs/host.access.log main;
location / {
root html;
index index.html index.htm;
}
#error_page 404 /404.html;
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root html;
}
}
# INCLUDES
include /Users/dingledow/etc/nginx/*.conf;
}
ingledow.conf at /Users/dingledow/etc/nginx/ingledow.conf
server {
listen 80;
server_name local.ingledow.co.uk;
location / {
root /Users/dingledow/Documents/Work/Ingledow/git/my_site2/;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
autoindex on;
}
}
I'm not sure if Apache is conflicting with nginx? Or whether I've just setup nginx incorrectly?

Answer 1

Setting a CNAME with your registrar isn't going to help at all, and you should remove that.
The only way to make this work is to edit your local HOSTS file at /etc/hosts and add a pointer to the localhost:
127.0.0.1. local.ingledow.co.uk
Then you'll either need to run the dev server on port 80 instead of 8000, or configure nginx to run your site via gunicorn or uwsgi - the documentation tells to how to do that.