nginx location path with proxy_pass - django

Question

I have following problem, i'm trying to put a Django app with an gunicorn server on my VPS running Nginx. My nginx config looks like this:
upstream app_name {
server unix:/path/to/socket/file.sock fail_timeout=10;
}
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen[::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
root /webapps/;
server_name my_hostname.com;
location / {
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
}
location /appname/ {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_pass http://app_name;
}
}
However when i navigate to my_server.com/appname/ i constantly get 404 error. I'm still new to Nginx, could someone point me in the right direction on how to set the proxy_pass for /appname/ path? I should point out that when location for /appname/ is replaced with / the django app is running fine.

Answer 1

You just need a trailing slash for proxy_pass:
proxy_pass http://app_name/;
it helps you to cut the "appname" prefix so the config looks like:
upstream app_name {
server unix:/path/to/socket/file.sock fail_timeout=10;
}
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen[::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
root /webapps/;
server_name my_hostname.com;
location /appname/ {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_pass http://app_name/;
}