:: Installing Django on NginX

:: What is
Please take a look at this.

:: Build Nginx
Please take a look at this.

:: Build Python 2.6.2 from source
+ Download Python

linux:~ # mkdir download
linux:~ # cd download/
linux:~/download # wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.2/Python-2.6.2.tar.bz2
linux:~/download # tar -xjf Python-2.6.2.tar.bz2

+ Compiling Python

linux:~/download # cd Python-2.6.2/
linux:~/download/Python-2.6.2 # ./configure --enable-shared
linux:~/download/Python-2.6.2 # make && make install

+ Configuring library

linux:~/download/Python-2.6.2 # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib

You can add LD_LIBRARY_PATH permanently on bash.bashrc file.

linux:~/download/Python-2.6.2 # vi /etc/bash.bashrc
--[ add this line on end of file ]--
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
-------------------------------------
linux:~/download/Python-2.6.2 # ln -s /usr/local/bin/python2.6 /usr/local/bin/python

+ Testing Python

linux:~/download/Python-2.6.2 # python
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Aug 26 2009, 06:08:22)
[GCC 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036]] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

Ctrl+D for quit.

:: Building Django
+ Download Django

linux:~ # cd download/
linux:~/download # wget http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.1/tarball/
linux:~/download # tar -xzf Django-1.1.tar.gz

+ Compiling Django

linux:~/download # cd Django-1.1/
linux:~/download/Django-1.1 # python setup.py install

:: Configuring Nginx for Django

linux:~/download/Django-1.1 # vi /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf
--[ configure like this: ]--

worker_processes  2;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error_log info;
events {
    worker_connections  1024;
    use epoll;
}

http {
    include         /usr/local/nginx/conf/mime.types;
    default_type    application/octet-stream;

    log_format main
            '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
            '"$request" $status $bytes_sent '
            '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" '
            '"$gzip_ratio"';

    client_header_timeout   10m;
    client_body_timeout     10m;
    send_timeout            10m;

    connection_pool_size            256;
    client_header_buffer_size       1k;
    large_client_header_buffers     4 2k;
    request_pool_size               4k;

    gzip on;
    gzip_min_length 1100;
    gzip_buffers    4 8k;
    gzip_types      text/plain;

    output_buffers  1 32k;
    postpone_output 1460;

    sendfile        on;
    tcp_nopush      on;
    tcp_nodelay     on;

    keepalive_timeout       75 20;

    ignore_invalid_headers  on;
    index index.html;

    server {
            listen 80;
            server_name localhost;
            # site_media - folder in uri for static files
      # you can change this wherever you want
            location /site_media  {
                    root /usr/local/nginx/examples;
                    }
            location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js|mov) {
            access_log   off; # po co mi logi obrazków :)
            expires      30d;
            }
            location / {
                    # host and port to fastcgi server
                    fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8080;
                    fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
                    fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
                    fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
                    fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
                    fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
                    fastcgi_pass_header Authorization;
                    fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
                    }
            access_log      /var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log main;
            error_log       /var/log/nginx/localhost.error_log;
 }
}

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+ Make logs files

linux:~/download/Django-1.1 # mkdir /var/log/nginx/
linux:~/download/Django-1.1 # touch /var/log/nginx/error_log
linux:~/download/Django-1.1 # touch /var/log/nginx/localhost.error_log
linux:~/download/Django-1.1 # touch /var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log

+ Make working directory (examples)
i used examples directory from Django package.

linux:~/download/Django-1.1 # cp -r /root/download/Django-1.1/examples/ /usr/local/nginx/

:: Running Djangon and Nginx

linux:~/download/Django-1.1 # cd /usr/local/nginx/examples/
linux:/usr/local/nginx/examples # python manage.py runfcgi host=127.0.0.1 port=8080 --settings=settings
linux:/usr/local/nginx/examples # /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx

:: Testing Django on Nginx
Open your web browser and goto url : http//youip/ or http://yourdomain.tld


:: Links
+ GoogleLinux
+ RkBlog
+ NginxWiki