How to serve static files for multiple Django projects via nginx to same domain
- by thanley
I am trying to setup my nginx conf so that I can serve the relevant files for my multiple Django projects. Ultimately I want each app to be available at www.example.com/app1, www.example.com/app2 etc. They all serve static files from a 'static-files' directory located in their respective project root.
The project structure:
Home
Ubuntu
Web
www.example.com
ref
logs
app
app1
app1
static
bower_components
templatetags
app1_project
templates
static-files
app2
app2
static
templates
templatetags
app2_project
static-files
app3
tests
templates
static-files
static
app3_project
app3
venv
When I use the conf below, there are no problems for serving the static-files for the app that I designate in the /static/ location. I can also access the different apps found at their locations. However, I cannot figure out how to serve all of the static files for all the apps at the same time. I have looked into using the 'try_files' command for the static location, but cannot figure out how to see if it is working or not.
Nginx Conf - Only serving static files for one app:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
server_name www.example.com;
access_log /home/ubuntu/web/www.example.com/logs/access.log;
error_log /home/ubuntu/web/www.example.com/logs/error.log;
root /home/ubuntu/web/www.example.com/;
location /static/ {
alias /home/ubuntu/web/www.example.com/app/app1/static-files/;
}
location /media/ {
alias /home/ubuntu/web/www.example.com/media/;
}
location /app1/ {
include uwsgi_params;
uwsgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /app1;
uwsgi_modifier1 30;
uwsgi_pass unix:///home/ubuntu/web/www.example.com/app1.sock;
}
location /app2/ {
include uwsgi_params;
uwsgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /app2;
uwsgi_modifier1 30;
uwsgi_pass unix:///home/ubuntu/web/www.example.com/app2.sock;
}
location /app3/ {
include uwsgi_params;
uwsgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /app3;
uwsgi_modifier1 30;
uwsgi_pass unix:///home/ubuntu/web/www.example.com/app3.sock;
}
# what to serve if upstream is not available or crashes
error_page 400 /static/400.html;
error_page 403 /static/403.html;
error_page 404 /static/404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /static/500.html;
# Compression
gzip on;
gzip_http_version 1.0;
gzip_comp_level 5;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_min_length 1100;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
# Some version of IE 6 don't handle compression well on some mime-types,
# so just disable for them
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6].(?!.*SV1)";
# Set a vary header so downstream proxies don't send cached gzipped
# content to IE6
gzip_vary on;
}
Essentially I want to have something like (I know this won't work)
location /static/ {
alias /home/ubuntu/web/www.example.com/app/app1/static-files/;
alias /home/ubuntu/web/www.example.com/app/app2/static-files/;
alias /home/ubuntu/web/www.example.com/app/app3/static-files/;
}
or (where it can serve the static files based on the uri)
location /static/ {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
So basically, if I use try_files like above, is the problem in my project directory structure? Or am I totally off base on this and I need to put each app in a subdomain instead of going this route? Thanks for any suggestions
TLDR: I want to go to:
www.example.com/APP_NAME_HERE
And have nginx serve the static location:
/home/ubuntu/web/www.example.com/app/APP_NAME_HERE/static-files/;
