how to deploy django under a suburl behind nginx

Question

I have a django application running on http://localhost:12345 . I\'d like user to access it via url http://my.server.com/myapp . I use nginx to reverse proxy to it like the

Answer 1

Here is part of my config for nginx which admittedly doesn't set FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME, but then, I'm not using a subdirectory. Maybe it will be useful for setting options related to USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST in nginx rather than Django.

upstream app_server_djangoapp {
    server localhost:8001 fail_timeout=0;
}

server  {
    listen xxx.xxx.xx.xx:80;
    server_name mydomain.com www.mydomain.com;
    if ($host = mydomain.com) {
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 permanent;
    }
    ...
    location / {
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_redirect off;

        if (!-f $request_filename) {
            proxy_pass http://app_server_djangoapp;
            break;
        }
    }
    ...
}