Run django app via nginx+uwsgi in a subpath

Question

I want to run a simple test project in a subdirectory alias on our development server. The basic setup is an nginx with a location that passes everything in a subdirectory t

Answer 1

This is false:

Django obviously does not understand that it runs in an subdirectory alias, which completely destroys URL generation and parsing.

Django does understand that, and deals with it transparently. The server should be setting SCRIPT_NAME itself: the fact that you find yourself using FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME shows that the problem lies in your Nginx configuration, rather than in Django.

I suspect that the issue is the use of location, rather than a more suitable directive. Unfortunately I'm no expert on Nginx/uwsgi. In Apache/mod_wsgi, you would do this:

WSGIScriptAlias /mysite /usr/local/django/mysite/apache/django.wsgi

to tell mod_wsgi that site starts at mysite, rather than the root. There is almost certainly a similar command with nginx/uwsgi.