Python on Nginx

[Cliff Wells]

On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 13:09 +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 07:09:32PM +0100, Francis Daly wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:11:14AM -0400, etrader wrote:
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > > The instruction given on http://wiki.nginx.org/PythonFlup is to install
> > > nginx supporting python. But I have a working Nginx with php-fpm
> > > supporting PHP. Now I want to add support of python too. Thus, my config
> > > is slightly different.
> > 
> > nginx doesn't know (or care) that you are using php or python or anything
> > else. All it knows is how you have configured different location{} blocks.
> > 
> > Each request is handled by one location, so you must make sure that you
> > have the right configuration in the location that your request matches.
> > 
> > > How should modify the nginx config to support python?
> > 
> > If you are currently using php-fpm, you probably have something like
> > 
> > location [something that matches urls that should be handled by php] {
> >     fastcgi_pass [your php-fastcgi server];
> > }
> > 
> > So now that you are adding a separate fastcgi server that is associated
> > with python, you'll want to add a new location block like
> > 
> > location [something that matches urls that should be handled by python] {
> >     fastcgi_pass [your python-fastcgi server];
> > }
> > 
> > The details depend on what you're trying to do. The documentation on
> > "location", or the debug log, should show you which location is being
> > used for each request -- if it's not the right one, you'll need to
> > adjust the config.
> > 
> > Good luck with it,
> 
> BTW, I know that some people prefer to use uWSGI server for python.
> 
> 

http://blog.zacharyvoase.com/2010/03/05/django-uwsgi-nginx/

There's lots of articles on setting up Django + uwsgi + Nginx out there.

Cliff