deploying django with gunicorn and nginx

Gunicorn is a wsgi HTTP server. As its document says:

it is best to use Gunicorn behind HTTP proxy server.

Nginx is strongly suggested as the proxy server. Here is a quick note for deploying django with nginx and gunicorn.

The nginx server can be configured as follows:

server {
    listen   80; ## listen for ipv4;
    listen   [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6

    server_name your.app.domain.name;

    location /static {
        root /path/to/your/staticfiles;
    }

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
        proxy_set_header Host $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    }
}

Start gunicorn to serve your django application. Be sure to bind gunicorn to the port number (8080) specified in the previous configuration file:

gunicorn -b localhost:8080 django_application.wsgi:application