How to run django with nginx on a windows machine?

Question

I have a django project. I have installed nginx server. I want to run nginx along with django on windows machine. I have tried a few blogs Nginx Django Uwsgi. But all of the

Answer 1

After the Django1.9+, the FastCGI support via the runfcgi management command is removed. So you have to use old version django, or use the mod_wsgi + apache.

If you only want to develop the django code, then you can just edit nginx.conf add proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000 into the location option. For example:

    location /api/ {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000; 
    }

    location /static/ {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000; 
    }