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NGINX Cookbook

By : Tim Butler
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NGINX Cookbook

By: Tim Butler

Overview of this book

NGINX Cookbook covers the basics of configuring NGINX as a web server for use with common web frameworks such as WordPress and Ruby on Rails, through to utilization as a reverse proxy. Designed as a go-to reference guide, this book will give you practical answers based on real-world deployments to get you up and running quickly. Recipes have also been provided for multiple SSL configurations, different logging scenarios, practical rewrites, and multiple load balancing scenarios. Advanced topics include covering bandwidth management, Docker container usage, performance tuning, OpenResty, and the NGINX Plus commercial features. By the time you've read this book, you will be able to adapt and use a wide variety of NGINX implementations to solve any problems you have.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Setting up Django with NGINX

Django rose to fame when a small US newspaper firm open sourced their application back in 2005. From there, Django has grown into the most widely used Python-based web framework. Still used by companies such as Instagram and Pinterest, the relevancy of Django is still as strong as ever.

Getting ready

Django interfaces to NGINX through a Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI). For Django, one of the most commonly used WSGI interfaces is uWSGI.

If you haven't installed uWSGI yet, the best way is to install the latest version via pip:

apt-get install python-pip python-dev
pip install uwsgi

We're going to simply use a base install of the latest version of Django, which at the time of writing...