I can't for the life of me figure out how to deploy a django site under a non-root location with Nginx/fastcgi, e.g. localhost:8080/myproject/ instead of localhost:8080/; all the examples I have seen either assume Apache or mounting at the root of the site. Here's the relevant part of my nginx.conf
:
server {
listen 8080;
server_name localhost;
location /myproject/ {
# host and port to fastcgi server
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:3030;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
#fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$nginx_version;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
}
}
And a minimal urls.py
:
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^hello$', lambda request: HttpResponse('Hello world!')),
)
Trying to access localhost:8080/myproject/hello gives a 404. I've tried unsuccessfully all combinations of:
- Commenting/uncommenting
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
- Commenting/uncommenting
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
- Setting
FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME = '/myproject/'
in settings.py.
Best Answer
Just pushed through the same issue myself- it turns out that the link you provided to the Django change doc was the key to solving the problem.
Django > 1.0 uses
SCRIPT_NAME
andPATH_INFO
to route URLs, as the doc explained. So I took that and ran with it. For a project called 'myproject', which you'd like rooted at mydomain.com/myproject/, try this.The rest of the fastcgi params I have in another site-wide config file. So your example would look something like
with the same urls.py. The only issues I've had so far have been minor troubles keeping DRY, eg where settings.py requires absolute URLs and Django doesn't think to prepend the
SCRIPT_NAME
on the URL (thinksettings.LOGIN_URL
,settings.MEDIA_URL
).This might be obvious, but also make sure you have another location that points to your static and admin media.