nginx serving Django static media | 502 bad gateway

Question

I\'m trying to serve Django static media through nginx, Here\'s my nginx.conf

server {
    listen       7777;
    listen       localhost:7777;
    server_name  e         


        

Answer 1

the better way would be to use nginx in front of apache and to serve static media:

eg: nginx:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name media.example.com;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/media.example.com.media.access.log;
    location / {
        autoindex on;
        index index.html;
        root /var/www/media.example.com/media;
    }
}

server { 
        listen 80;
        server_name www.example.com;
        access_log /var/log/nginx/www.example.com.django.access.log;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://wwwcluster;
        include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;
    }
}

proxy.conf:

proxy_redirect              off;
proxy_set_header            Host $host;
proxy_set_header            X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header            X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
client_max_body_size        10m;
client_body_buffer_size     128k;
proxy_connect_timeout       90;
proxy_send_timeout          90;
proxy_read_timeout          90;
proxy_buffer_size           4k;
proxy_buffers               4 32k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size     64k;
proxy_temp_file_write_size  64k;

nginx.conf:

http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    tcp_nodelay        on;

    gzip  on;

    upstream wwwcluster {
        server 127.0.0.1:8080;
    }

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

and configure apache to serve your website on 127.0.0.1:8080

i have this setup on multiple sites and its running perfect. another advantage is, that you can cluster/load-balance your app very easy by adding another apache-server to upstream wwwcluster in nginx.conf