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

Now that uwsgi_modifier1 30 is removed in the latest versions of Nginx and uWSGI (and I didn't feel like using some hacky rewrite rules), I had to find a newer method to get it working:

uWSGI config:

[uwsgi]
# Requires PCRE support compiled into uWSGI
route-run = fixpathinfo:

Nginx config:

server {
    location /fancyprojectname/static {
        alias /srv/fancyprojectname/static;
    }

    location /fancyprojectname {
        uwsgi_pass unix://var/run/uwsgi/app/fancyprojectname/socket;
        uwsgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /fancyprojectname; # Pass the URL prefix to uWSGI so the "fixpathinfo:" route-rule can strip it out
        include uwsgi_params;
    }
}

IF THAT DOESN'T FIX IT: Try installing libpcre and libpcre-dev, then reinstall uwsgi with pip install -I --no-cache-dir uwsgi. uWSGI's internal routing subsystem requires the PCRE library to be installed before uWSGI is compiled/installed. More information on uWSGI and PCRE.