How to host a Django project in a subpath?
I found here that one needs to add the following setting to Django's configuration in settings.py
:
FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME = '/exampleproject'
This seems to rewrite all paths for nested resources.
Just remove the trailing slash from the proxy pass URL, like this:
proxy_pass http://localhost:8007;
If proxy_pass is specified without a URI, the request URI is passed to the server in the same form as sent by a client when the original request is processed, then keeping the /exampleproject/
part.
See: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_pass
Then you will need to configure Django to understand the URLs under /exampleproject/
.
First, you can prepend the subpath to all URLs by updating the urls.py
file like this:
urlpatterns = [url(r'^exampleproject/', include(urlpatterns))]
And, in case you are serving statics and media just update in the settings:
MEDIA_URL = '/exampleproject/media/'
STATIC_URL = '/exampleproject/static/'
Of course you can create a custom setting to replicate this or to make the app work without a subpath as well, I believe this is a better solution than FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME
because in that case I found we need to update the Django URLs anyways.