The way to enable django + uwsgi + nginx

Currently, django prefers wsgi. I'm not familiar with the difference between things like fastcgi, scgi, wsgi. So can't tell the reason for now. Anyway, since a lot of ppl recommend me to try nginx for streaming web application, I'd like to give it a try. The mod_wsgi for apache is not avaible in nginx. For nginx, it has another option, uwsgi. Again, I don't know the difference. Just have a try.

To install nginx, refer to: http://wiki.nginx.org/Install

To install and set uwsgi, refere to:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7081462/problem-with-nginx-uwsgi-in-vhost-mode-running-django-app

http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/Example

My finding in the setup:

• in /etc/nginx/conf.d/default, the location can be set more simpler on top of the default setting:

server {
       listen 80;
       server_name 127.0.0.1;
       access_log /var/log/nginx/access_log.tmp1;
       location /django {
               root /home/jimmy/laitao/groupbuy;
               uwsgi_pass 127.0.0.1:3031;
               include uwsgi_params;
       }
}

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'groupbuy.settings'import django.core.handlers.wsgiapplication = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

The 2nd system path I add is for include django in the library path. Otherwise, uwsgi won't find the django.core.handlers.wsgi module

• To restart nginx:

sudo service nginx restart

• edit the django project wsgi configure module file. Name it as django_wsgi.py in PATH_OF_YOUR_SITE.

import os
import sys

sys.path.append('PATH_OF_YOUR_SITE')
sys.path.append('/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages')
sys.path.append('PARENT_FOLDER_OF_YOUR_SITE')

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

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

The 2nd sys path is for uwsgi to find the django.core.handlers.wsgi. I installed django with python 2.6. But the uwsgi is installed with python 2.7. That's the reason why uwsgi can't find the module when I run it.

• command to run uwsgi

sudo uwsgi -p 4 -s 127.0.0.1:3031 --chdir PATH_OF_YOUR_SITE --module django_wsgi

Or use the xml format in file mydjango.xml as in  http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/Example

<uwsgi>
  <socket>127.0.0.1:3031</socket>
  <chdir>PATH_OF_YOUR_SITE</chdir>
  <module>django_wsgi</module>
  <processes>4</processes>
</uwsgi>

and run with command:

sudo uwsgi -x mydjango.xml