Month: October 2021

Moving Django to a subpath + Nginx + gunicorn (upd. 18.11.21)

djangokatyaLeave a comment

upd. I forgot to include the most important line in the Nginx config. Sorry for that. but it does not work for me anymore. I am confused but I am postponing this for a few days to finish top priority tasks.

Super easy, super fun. Let’s base it on this great guide from Digital Ocean.

Say, the subpath you want is /secret/ 👀.

Add it to Nginx config:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name server_domain_or_IP;

    location /secret/static/ {
        root /home/sammy/myprojectdir;
    }

    location /secret/ {
        rewrite /api(.*) $1 break;   # !!!!!!!!!!!!!! VERY IMPORTANT
        include proxy_params;
        proxy_pass http://unix:/run/gunicorn.sock;
    }
}

Then, things we will change in settings.py:

  • in Nginx root means that in the directory it will look for a secret/static/ directory. But now you only have a regular static/.
  • Currently your Django generated static links are all example.com/static, we will change that too.

Your new settings variables will be something like this:

STATIC_URL = '/secret/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'secret/static/'

MEDIA_URL = '/secret/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'secret/media/'
FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME = 'secret'

That’s it. Go check all absolute paths that you wrote down in your project and you are good.

www not working

djangokatyaLeave a comment

Before you spend hours of working on Nginx config etc., check your domain’s DNS records.

You need to have a record resembling this:

Type: CNAME

Hostname/Name: http://www.your.website

Value: your.website

TTL (seconds): 3600

And in Nginx you need to capture http://www.your.website (port 80) and redirect it to https://your.website (port 443). Something like this:

server {
    listen 80;
    
    server_name www.your.website
    return 301 https://your.website$request_uri;
}