NGINX configuration set up (with uWSGI)

Once a uWSGI server is running, one may prefer to have Nginx as the reverse proxy to the uWSGI server. This set up is quite commonly used for example while deploying a Django project to production.

Here a simple configuration file has been added which can quickly set up the NGINX and uWSGI set up working. Just follow the next steps.

Note: the following steps have been tried out in Linux operating systems such as Ubuntu in this case.

• Initiate a uWSGI server listening to port 5000 (as an example port to be used for the following steps. Do not use port 80 or 443 or any other standard ports)
• Install Nginx
• Create a new file named "mywebsite" in the sites-available folder (/etc/nginx/sites-available)
• Insert the following content in the mywebsite file.
  
  

  server {
      listen 80;
      server_name <domain/ip>;
  
      location /static {
          alias /path_to_staticfiles; # your project's static files location - amend as required
      }
      # Finally, send all non-media requests to the server.
      location / {
          proxy_set_header        Host $host;
          proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
          proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
          proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
          proxy_read_timeout 300;
          proxy_connect_timeout 300;
          proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:5000;  # Add your own server port here instead of 5000.
          include     uwsgi_params; # the uwsgi_params in nginx
      }
  }
  
  server {
      listen 80;
      server_name yourdomain.com;
  
      return 301 http://www.yourdomain.com$request_uri;
  }​

• Run the following command
  sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mywebsite /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
  
  
• Restart Nginx
  sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
  
  
• That's it. You may be able to view the website now at standard http port 80.