I've setup my Django application on Apache+mod_wsgi. To serve the static files I'm using Nginx, as suggested on Django's project website. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modwsgi/
Apache is running on port 8081 and nginx is on port 80. Now some people have suggested that my configuration is wrong and I should reverse the roles of Apache and Nginx. I'm not sure why that should be. And if indeed my configuration is wrong, why would django website suggest the wrong method?
The django docs you linked to do not suggest you use apache as a reverse proxy. They simply suggest you use a separate web server, so I'd say the docs are not clear on that subject -- they are not suggesting anything wrong.
My initial answer was assuming you had nginx as a reverse proxy because port 80 is the HTTP port, the one used when a browser attempts to go to a url with no port specified.
There are numerous complete guides to setting up nginx + apache via a quick google search but here is the gist for setting up nginx:
location / {
# proxy / requests to apache running django on port 8081
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8081/;
proxy_redirect off;
}
location /media/ {
# serve static media directly from nginx
root /srv/anuva_project/www/;
expires 30d;
break;
}
All you need to do is remove the proxy lines from your apache configuration and add the proxy statements to your nginx.conf instead.
If you really want to serve your site from port 8081, you could potentially have nginx listen on port 8081 and have apache listen on a different port.
The point is, apache sits in some obscure port, only serving requests sent to it from nginx, while static file serving is handled by nginx.
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I would like to know how to omit the port number from my URL.
I currently host a website on an Apache Ubuntu server on port 443 and redirect any http traffic to the https version of the site.
(www.mycompany.com)
However, I also run a Django server on the same Apache VPS using Gunicorn, currently on port 8000 and would like to achieve the URL of www.mycompany.com/blog
My current situation for the URL is www.mycompany.com:8000/blog
I have tried altering the ports that the Django server runs on to 443 and 80, but quickly realised the firewall won't allow that.
I am not sure what to do. Do I have to do a reverse proxy?
i have a linux server running under Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS, i'm using NGINX as a web server and uWSGI as an application server, i have a Django website is already installed and running perfectly, and the exact way i did that is by following the instructions from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpR1W-NWnp4&t=2s, but the thing is that i have several websites that needs to be installed, so i tried to redo all of it for a second website on the same server, but that did not work at all.
My question is: once i install a Django project exactly the way shown in the video using Nginx and uWSGI, how to install another Django project in a practical manner, in other words how to install multiple Django projects using Nginx and uWSGI.
this is my nginx server block saved at /etc/nginx/sites-available/project_name.conf
# the upstream component nginx needs to connect to
upstream django {
server unix:///home/user/project_name/project_name.sock;
}
# configuration of the server
server {
listen 80;
server_name domain.com www.domain.com;
charset utf-8;
# max upload size
client_max_body_size 75M;
# Django media and static files
location /media {
alias /home/user/project_name/media;
}
location /static {
alias /home/user/project_name/static;
}
# Send all non-media requests to the Django server.
location / {
uwsgi_pass django;
include /home/user/project_name/uwsgi_params;
}
}
Try out this bash script I wrote. It set ups as many Django websites as you want with a simple command. The script installs all the dependencies on your server, creates a virtual environment for each site, and configures a database server and Gunicorn connector.
I have setup Jetbrains Upsource and Teamcity on the same EC2 instance for evalution purposes. If I expose each container on port 80 seperately, I can reach it from the outside world. I want to know how to setup nginx so that I can reach each container over a subdomain like eg. "upsource.example.aws.com" and "teamcity.example.aws.com". I exposed the containers on ports 8080 and 8111 to the host. Is it even possible to achieve this ? If so, I dont know how to start. I read on ways to host multiple domains on one machine for a node web app though exposing the static context. But i have no idea how to make it work with the preconfigured docker images.
Can this be achieved via nginx conf file ?
If not, do I have to use two instances or is there another possibility within aws ?
Its possible with nginx. You have to use something called reverse proxy.
You can expose both the containers in different ports and redirect to these with the help of the nginx configuration.
For example if you have some containers running in port 8000 and 8001 in 127.0.0.1 you can redirect like this:
location /1 {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
}
location /2 {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001;
}
Updated Answer
You need to have 3 containers. The nginx server should be running in port 80. The other two containers will host the sites in say port 8000 (upsource.example.aws.com) and port 8111(teamcity.example.aws.com).
Update the configuration file with the location settings as shown above. Make sure that location / forwards to port 8000 and location /teamcity forwards to port 8111 in your host. More details on how to configure nginx is on the docker hub.
Working
When you go to blabla.com the nginx sever forwards it to port 8000 and when you go to blabla.com/teamcity its goes to port 8111.
I hope somebody can help me because im struggling with the facebook redirects from the django_social_auth app.
The problem is that it keeps me redirecting with the port number included:
http://mywebsite.com/login/facebook
http://mywebsite.com:8080/complete/facebook/
The thing is that i'm running a Nginx/apache configuration for my django project.
Nginx for statics/medias which is on port 80 and a proxypath to 8080
Apache on port 8080
I digged into the social_auth code and it seems that it uses request.get_host()
to determine the redirects ( which obviously contains the port )
What would be the most clever way to handle the situation ?
Reconfigure apache and nginx and switch their ports?
Write a middleware that strips out the port number?
Thanks a lot in advance
Thank you to Charlie who pointed me to the right direction.
The only thing i had to do was add this line to my nginx server config:
proxy_set_header Host $host;
and this like to the django settings
USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST = True
Now it works perfectly
I have a Django based CMS that uses Django's sites framework and Nginx/Apache/mod_wsgi virtual hosts to run a number of websites on different domains. We're assessing other options for a Django stack and have the CMS running with a single site on a new server with Nginx proxying to Gunicorn (gunicorn_django, specifically).
Although this works great for a single site, I'm not sure how to configure Gunicorn for multiple sites. The problem is that with Apache/mod_wsgi, we could set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE for mod_wsgi to the appropriate site's settings.py
import os, sys
def inflight(filename):
"""
Calculate absolute path to the folder containing "myfile.wsgi", then
append to the PYTHONPATH.
"""
ROOT = ('/').join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(filename)).split('/')[0:-1])
sys.path.append(ROOT)
sys.path.append(os.path.join(ROOT, 'website'))
sys.stdout = sys.stderr
# Each website should have a settings file: /www/mysite.com/website/settings.py
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'website.settings'
import django.core.handlers.wsgi
return django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()
At the moment I'm thinking that I have to have a different instance of Gunicorn for each virtual host site we run but that seems overkill for the traffic we get to most of our sites.
Does anyone run Gunicorn with Django's sites framework and can give a hint to how it's configured?
I had the same problem and stumbled upon this question in search of the same answer.
I know the question is old and you've probably figured it out by now, but since it might be useful for someone else, here's how I solved it:
You do need to run separate gunicorn processes to make django sites framework work because you can only point a gunicorn instance at one settings.py file. If you're sites don't get much traffic, I'd only create 1 or 2 gunicorn workers per site. (I know, still probably overkill).
Ideally you would want to manage these different processes with something like supervisord to make it easier to manage starting/stoping/restarting your different sites, but I couldn't get it working.
First, start up your gunicorn servers on local host at different ports using the command line. Ex:
gunicorn_django -w 2 -b 127.0.0.1:1000 /path/to/my/django/project/site1_settings.py --daemon
gunicorn_django -w 2 -b 127.0.0.1:1001 /path/to/my/django/project/site2_settings.py --daemon
You now have 2 django sites running on localhost at ports 1000 and 1001 (you can use whatever ports suite you).
Now you need to create two separate nginx server configuration files to point each domain name at it's respective django site.
Ex:
server {
listen 80;
server_name website1.com;
client_max_body_size 4G;
keepalive_timeout 4;
location /media {
root /path/to/my/django/project/media; #this servers your static files
}
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header HOST $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
if (!-f $request_filename){
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:1000; #point to the django site already running on local host
break;
}
}
#add in any additional nginx configuration such as support for 500 errors or proxy apache to server php files etc.
}
Then create a duplicate of the nginx configuration for your 2nd site, but change the server name and the proxy_pass to the values for site 2.
Make sure your server configuration files are included in the main nginx.conf file.
Reload nginx and you should be good to go.
If anyone has an easier/better way to go about this please post it.