Benefits of front-end vs. direct serving

[Cliff Wells]

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 05:30 +0200, Mihir Joshi wrote:
> It's good to know then that my decision to not install Apache was not 
> wrong.
> 
> A few tutorials/articles for Django & Nginx I've seen appear to run 
> Nginx as a front-end server to Apache, which made me wonder if that was 
> indeed the way to go.

There are several ways to run Django behind Nginx.  You can run it as a
FastCGI or proxy to it using CherryPy's wsgiserver.  Probably you just
don't know the right search terms:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Django
http://www.eflorenzano.com/blog/post/hosting-django-site-pure-python/


Regards,
Cliff