I’m building production environment on my VPS for all of my django applications. What I need is: Django framework, Apache (with mod_wsgi) and nginx. I will do it on ubuntu 9.04.

Let’s fun.

Install nginx and apache with mod_wsgi

I assume that you have nginx installed. If not:

sudo apt-get install nginx

and now…
you need to install apache with all necessary modules.

sudo aptitude install apache2 apache2.2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils libexpat1 ssl-cert

now… we need to add mod_wsgi to our apache.

sudo aptitude install libapache2-mod-wsgi

and restart it:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Configure apache

sudo vim /etc/apache2/apache2.conf

change ‘Timeout’ variable to some lower value… for example 30 or 90.
change ‘KeepAlive’ variable to ‘Off’.
close the file.

sudo vim /etc/apache2/ports.conf

change ‘NameVirtualHost’ and ‘Listen’ to ’127.0.0.1:80′ so the first two uncommented lines should look like:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80
Listen 127.0.0.1:80

close the file.

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

don’t care about the warnings.

Run django app

I assume that you have django installed. If not:

sudo apt-get install python-django

or you can always install latest (official/development) version.

I assume that you have some django project created – if not… create some.

Let’s configure all these things.

My project is under ‘/opt/django-projects/’ path.

add site.com to apache

sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/site.com

and add there:

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName site.com
        ServerAlias www.site.com
        WSGIScriptAlias / /opt/django-projects/site/site.wsgi
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
    ServerName www.site.com
    ServerAlias site.com

    <Directory /opt/django-projects/site/>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    LogLevel warn
    ErrorLog  /var/log/site-apache_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/site-apache_access.log combined

    WSGIDaemonProcess site.com user=www-data group=www-data threads=25
    WSGIProcessGroup site.com
    WSGIScriptAlias / /opt/django-projects/site/site.wsgi
</VirtualHost>

now… we should create our ‘site.wsgi’ file.

vim /opt/django-projects/site/site.wsgi

and add there:

import os
import sys

sys.path.append('/opt/django-projects/')

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'site.settings'

import django.core.handlers.wsgi

application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

now:

a2ensite site.com

or just:

ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/site.com /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

and:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

apache is ready.

add site.com to nginx

sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/site.com

and add there:

server {
        listen OUR_IP:80;
        server_name site.com;
        rewrite ^(.*) http://www.site.com permanent;
}

server {
    listen OUR_IP:80;
    server_name www.site.com;

    access_log /var/log/site-nginx-access.log;
    error_log /var/log/site-nginx-error.log;

    location / {
        proxy_pass    http://127.0.0.1:80/;
        include       /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;
    }

    location /media/ {
            root   /opt/django-projects/site/site_media/;
            expires 1d;
    }
}

now have a look at ‘/etc/nginx/proxy.conf’. This file should looks like:

# proxy.conf
proxy_redirect          off;
proxy_set_header        Host            $host;
proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
client_max_body_size    10m;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;
proxy_connect_timeout   110;
proxy_send_timeout      110;
proxy_read_timeout      110;
proxy_buffers           32 4k;

now:

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/site.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/site.com

and:

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart

The end.
Check site.com in your web browser.

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