Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of DjangoAndNginx

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May 6, 2008, 2:35:26 PM (16 years ago)

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jgeewax@…

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+I just recently grabbed a hosting setup on VPSLink.com and wanted to get Django up and running. I'd heard good things about nginx, but had never set it up or configured it before, so I figured I'd give it a try. There were a few little bumps I ran into, but in the end the setup worked pretty well so I wanted to share my setup and configuration experience with everyone here.
+
+This setup is running Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 as xen instance on VPSLink, this walks through starting everything up from scratch, but assumes you are running as root (type `su` to switch to the root user)
+
+The first thing I had to do was install python:
+{{{
+aptitude install python
+}}}
+
+Next, I needed Django, which I got the latest SVN release (due to a ManyToMany bug I saw in the past, I'm sticking to a release I didn't have trouble with:
+{{{
+aptitude install subversion
+cd /
+mkdir django
+cd django
+svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/ -r 7210
+cd trunk
+python setup.py install
+}}}
+
+Next, to run Django through fastcgi, we need python-flup:
+{{{
+aptitude install python-flup
+}}}
+
+Let's start a sample project just to make things easy:
+(Note: for some reason, the PYTHON_PATH and PATH variables, although they included the django bin directory, still couldn't find django-admin.py, so I included the full path)
+{{{
+cd /
+mkdir projects
+cd projects/
+python /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py startproject sample_project
+}}}
+
+Also, create a media directory:
+{{{
+cd /
+mkdir media
+}}}
+
+Let's start up the fastcgi setup:
+(Note: I didn't need any extra stuff on my pythonpath, but if you do, just add --pythonpath=/path/to/add)
+(Note: Nothing should print here)
+{{{
+cd /projects/sample_project/
+python manage.py runfcgi host=127.0.0.1 port=8080 --settings=settings
+}}}
+
+
+Now let's setup Nginx:
+
+First, create a user for nginx to run as, and then remove a password from it so no one can log in as the user:
+{{{
+useradd apache
+passwd -d apache
+}}}
+
+Let's install nginx from aptitude:
+{{{
+aptitude install nginx
+}}}
+
+Next, we need to change the configuration (and back up the default one just in case):
+{{{
+cd /etc/nginx/
+mv nginx.conf nginx-backup.conf
+touch nginx.conf
+}}}
+
+Now we need to put some new stuff into the default nginx configuration, here is the template I used:
+{{{
+user  apache apache;
+
+worker_processes  2;
+
+error_log /var/log/nginx/error_log info;
+
+events {
+        worker_connections  1024;
+        use epoll;
+}
+
+http {
+        include         /etc/nginx/mime.types;
+        default_type    application/octet-stream;
+
+        log_format main
+                '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
+                '"$request" $status $bytes_sent '
+                '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" '
+                '"$gzip_ratio"';
+
+        client_header_timeout   10m;
+        client_body_timeout     10m;
+        send_timeout            10m;
+
+        connection_pool_size            256;
+        client_header_buffer_size       1k;
+        large_client_header_buffers     4 2k;
+        request_pool_size               4k;
+
+        gzip on;
+        gzip_min_length 1100;
+        gzip_buffers    4 8k;
+        gzip_types      text/plain;
+
+        output_buffers  1 32k;
+        postpone_output 1460;
+
+        sendfile        on;
+        tcp_nopush      on;
+        tcp_nodelay     on;
+
+        keepalive_timeout       75 20;
+
+        ignore_invalid_headers  on;
+        index index.html;
+
+        server {
+                listen 80;
+                server_name localhost;
+                location /site_media  {
+                        root /media/; # Notice this is the /media folder that we create above
+                }
+                location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js|mov) {
+                        access_log   off;
+                        expires      30d; 
+                }
+                location / {
+                        # host and port to fastcgi server
+                        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8080;
+                        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
+                        fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
+                        fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
+                        fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
+                        fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
+                        fastcgi_pass_header Authorization;
+                        fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
+                        }
+                access_log      /var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log main;
+                error_log       /var/log/nginx/localhost.error_log;
+        }
+}
+}}}
+
+Now all we need to do is start up nginx:
+{{{
+/etc/init.d/nginx start
+}}}