How to configure NGINX to run Django app in a subpath?

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Luca Moiana

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Nov 26, 2017, 2:56:05 PM11/26/17
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Hi,

Sorry for the slight OT but after days of search I have no clue.


Following this DigitalOcean tutorial I was able to setup Django + Postgres + Gunicorn + NGINX running Django on my root,

Now I'd like to change and have something like this:

mydomain.com -> static HTML
mydomain.com/pmapp -> Django app

I created two server blocks in NGINX, one for my static website:

server {


        listen 80;


        listen [::]:80;




        root /var/www/html/officinecartografiche.it;


        index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;




        server_name www.officinecartografiche.it, officinecartografiche.it, 207.154.206.172;




        location / {


                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;

       }

}


 and one for my django app:

server {


    listen 80;


    listen [::]:80;


    server_name www.officinecartografiche.it, officinecartografiche.it, 207.154.206.172;


    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }


    location /static/ {


        root /home/geouser/pmapp;


    }




    location /pmapp {


        #include proxy_params;


        proxy_pass http://unix:/home/geouser/pmapp/pmapp.sock;


        proxy_redirect http://www.officinecartografiche.it:8000/pmapp/ http://$host/pmapp/;


        proxy_set_header SCRIPT_NAME /pmapp;


    }


}


and added this to settings.py:

FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME = '/pmapp'



WHAT AM I DOING WRONG??

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!!

mohammad k

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I don't know / remember how to do it in Gunicorn, but here is an example with uWSGI:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35792409/nginx-serving-django-in-a-subdirectory-through-uwsgi

The main thing is that you will have to deal with "/pmapp" prefix in your routing / urls. You can deal with this inside Django or have it stripped before it gets to Django (by nginx or gunicorn).

HTH :)

Etienne Robillard

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Nov 27, 2017, 5:10:50 AM11/27/17
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I have not been able to solve this problem with uWSGI. Apparently, uWSGI is not using the same internal routing semantics than FastCGI.

See: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,275684,275706

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That's good to know, I tried to do it some time ago, it was an attempt of a "sort-of-tennats" which at the didn't go so I stop doing it. At that moment, I remember trying with gunicorn without success and I was near success with uWSGi but didn't make it at that time. I supposed that know would be solved as the s-o question reports success.

Seems that the easiest way to go is to prefix all urls in Django with the mount point - provided that no url is hardcoded in the django project - and use a "regular" nginx conf...

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Luca Moiana

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Nov 27, 2017, 6:21:41 AM11/27/17
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Thanks for your replly, I'll look into the link you suggested.
As for the routing / urls adding FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME = '/pmapp' to settings.py isnt' enough?
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Luca Moiana

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Nov 27, 2017, 6:24:04 AM11/27/17
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Thanks for your reply, although it sounds hard for a noob like me.

Just to understand, the trick should be done on Gunicorn or on NGINX ?
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Luca Moiana

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Nov 27, 2017, 6:30:39 AM11/27/17
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Thanks, I read you tutorial but I don't get where I should set my subpath?

thanks a lot
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Luca Moiana

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Nov 27, 2017, 6:32:46 AM11/27/17
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Googling around I found this page http://albertoconnor.ca/hosting-django-under-different-locations.html but ain't working for me
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Nov 27, 2017, 3:28:55 PM11/27/17
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Something like this should work:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/20998131/8930660
and change STATIC_URL and MEDIA_URL

Also, the FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME should also work, but if it doesn't, the first is the most "manual" thing you can do, I think...

Then you have no need to have 2 nginx confs, just put that the proxy_pass "starts" in your prefix instead of root

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Luca Moiana

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Nov 29, 2017, 3:45:16 PM11/29/17
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Following this tutorial

I came up with this NGINX server:

upstream app_name {

   server unix:/home/geouser/pmapp/pmapp.sock fail_timeout=10;

}


server {


   listen 80;

  root /home/geouser/pmapp;

  server_name www.officinecartografiche.it, officinecartografiche.it, 207.154.206.172;



   location /pmapp/ {

     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/;


}

}


and I can access the "it works" page from: http://my domain/pmapp

But, If I try http://my domain/pmapp/admin

I have error 404

then if I use www.mydomain/pmapp I have "DisallowedHost at /" error but I added all possibile spell of my site, including IP, on 'ALLOWED_HOSTS' in settings.py

Any help?

Etienne Robillard

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Nov 29, 2017, 4:56:37 PM11/29/17
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Whats wrong in using FastCGI for your specific use-case ?

Etienne

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Luca Moiana

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Nov 30, 2017, 4:42:05 AM11/30/17
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Nothing wrong, but havign set up the system I didn't want to change software cause I'm not that savvy.
Anyway, I ended up hiring someone on Fivrr and  got the job done. I was closed, but not closed enough

Thank for you help !!!
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