Why won't Python package install from my personal PyPI server?

Question

I\'ve created a personal PyPI \"packages\" server on a Debian 9/Nginx box so that I can make my server builds deterministic. I pin all my Python packages and need to ensure

Answer 1

For my private package server, the only thing that worked was --extra-index-url:

--extra-index-url https://foo.redacted.com/
Django
my_other_package

This will check pypi first, then your private server. One thing that's helped with debugging it is to use --verbose to show what's happening with the connection.