How to configure nginx and uWSGI to serve Django projects

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Post by GilK » Tue, Jan 17, 2012, 12:34 PM UTC

A quick step-by-step guide on how to configure nginx and uWSGI to serve Django projects

How to configure nginx and uWSGI to serve Django projects
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Re: How to configure nginx and uWSGI to serve Django projects

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Post by wulczer » Tue, Jan 17, 2012, 12:55 PM UTC

We found that Debian-packaged uWSGI is missing one param in uwsgi_params so you should use this instead:

    location / {
        uwsgi_pass ;
        include uwsgi_params;
        uwsgi_param UWSGI_SCHEME $scheme;
    }

Without the UWSGI_SCHEME part, Django's Request.get_absolute_uri will return URIs starting with 'http' even if your site is served over HTTPS.

Re: How to configure nginx and uWSGI to serve Django projects

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 17, 2012, 1:41 PM UTC

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Re: How to configure nginx and uWSGI to serve Django projects

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Post by coderholic » Tue, Jan 17, 2012, 1:41 PM UTC

I'm a big fan of nginx and gunicorn, but haven't played around much with uWSGI. What does it give me that gunicorn doesn't?

Re: How to configure nginx and uWSGI to serve Django projects

#5

Post by niyazpk » Tue, Jan 17, 2012, 2:12 PM UTC

If anyone (like me) is confused about the differences between WSGI, FCGI, CGI etc., this might be helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3937224/differences-and-u...

Re: How to configure nginx and uWSGI to serve Django projects

#6

Post by BonoboBoner » Tue, Jan 17, 2012, 3:37 PM UTC

A good addition would be to use supervisord for running the uwsgi process at system startup. (as described here: http://brandonkonkle.com/blog/2010/sep/14/django-uwsgi-and-n...)

For a good comparison on different WSGI servers (aka uwsgi vs gunicorn, etc):

http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers

Re: How to configure nginx and uWSGI to serve Django projects

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Post by unbit » Tue, Jan 17, 2012, 3:51 PM UTC

BonoboBoner wrote: post #6

A good addition would be to use supervisord for running the uwsgi process at system startup. (as described here: http://brandonkonkle.com/blog/2010/sep/14/django-uwsgi-and-n... ) For a good comparison on different WSGI servers (aka uwsgi vs gunicorn, etc): http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers

supervisor is great, but if you want to host multiple applications the best way would be the uWSGI Emperor http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/Emperor

Regarding the benchmark, it is a bit outdated and the apache+mod_wsgi analysys/configuration is totally wrong (i am one of the uWSGI authors, but mod_wsgi is great, and seeing it blasted wrongly in that url is a bit disappointing)

By the way, do not choose your application server looking only at performance.really.

Re: How to configure nginx and uWSGI to serve Django projects

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Post by timc3 » Tue, Jan 17, 2012, 3:56 PM UTC

How many more of these tutorials do we actually need? It doesn't actually go into any real detail on what is happening for someone new to trying to bring up a dev box, and it certainly doesn't help those of us more experienced.

What about setting up logging, email, exception emails, time zone, https - things that are actually important for those that haven't done installations much.

Re: How to configure nginx and uWSGI to serve Django projects

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Post by thomaslangston » Tue, Jan 17, 2012, 4:13 PM UTC

If you're going to host a tutorial on the web, use some hyperlinks to define your terms. If I hadn't gone to a Django talk last night I'd have no idea what uWSGI and nginx were.

Re: How to configure nginx and uWSGI to serve Django projects

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Post by JonAtkinson » Tue, Jan 17, 2012, 4:19 PM UTC

unbit wrote: post #7

BonoboBoner wrote: post #6

A good addition would be to use supervisord for running the uwsgi process at system startup. (as described here: http://brandonkonkle.com/blog/2010/sep/14/django-uwsgi-and-n... ) For a good comparison on different WSGI servers (aka uwsgi vs gunicorn, etc): http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers

supervisor is great, but if you want to host multiple applications the best way would be the uWSGI Emperor http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/Emperor Regarding the benchmark, it is a bit outdated and the apache+mod_wsgi analysys/configuration is totally wrong (i am one of the uWSGI authors, but mod_wsgi is great, and seeing it blasted wrongly in that url is a bit disappointing) By the way, do not choose your applica…

I've followed uWSGI development on and off for a little while, but I never knew about Emperor. I've been looking for something similar for a while. Thanks a lot for your work!