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Multiple websites on single VPS (nginx + centos + django)

I'm using VPS with nginx + centos + django. I already have one website running on it. Now i want to add one more domain, but after reading a lot of articles i still have troubles with it.
Here is my nginx.conf file:
user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
# Load dynamic modules. See /usr/share/nginx/README.dynamic.
include /usr/share/nginx/modules/*.conf;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
# Load modular configuration files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory.
# See http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#include
# for more information.
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf;
server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name website1.com www.website1.com;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/www.website1.com.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/www.website1.com.key;
location /static/ {
root /var/www/website1;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
}
location / {
root /var/www/website1;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
proxy_connect_timeout 300s;
proxy_read_timeout 300s;
}
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name website1.com www.website1.com;
return 301 https://$host:443$request_uri;
location = /favicon.ico {
alias /var/www/website1/static/img/favicon.png;
}
location /static/ {
root /var/www/website1;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
}
location / {
root /var/www/website1;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
proxy_connect_timeout 300s;
proxy_read_timeout 300s;
}
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name website2.com www.website2.com;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/www.website2.com.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/www.website2.com.key;
location /static/ {
root /var/www/website2;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
}
location / {
root /var/www/website2;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
proxy_connect_timeout 300s;
proxy_read_timeout 300s;
}
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name website2.com www.website2.com;
return 301 https://$host:443$request_uri;
location = /favicon.ico {
alias /var/www/website2/static/img/favicon.png;
}
location /static/ {
root /var/www/website2;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
}
location / {
root /var/www/website2;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8888;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
proxy_connect_timeout 300s;
proxy_read_timeout 300s;
}
}
}
I've tried using one short main file and two files for each website with
server blocks same as in the file above. In this case both website doesn't open at all.
user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
# Load dynamic modules. See /usr/share/nginx/README.dynamic.
include /usr/share/nginx/modules/*.conf;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
# Load modular configuration files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory.
# See http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#include
# for more information.
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf;
server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
}
Here is my django settings file, it is almost the same for both domains, so i leave here only one
"""
Django settings for apartment project.
Generated by 'django-admin startproject' using Django 2.1.4.
For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/settings/
For the full list of settings and their values, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/settings/
"""
import os
# Logging settings for django projects, works with django 1.5+
# If DEBUG=True, all logs (including django logs) will be
# written to console and to debug_file.
# If DEBUG=False, logs with level INFO or higher will be
# saved to production_file.
# Logging usage:
# import logging
# logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# logger.info("Log this message")
# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/howto/deployment/checklist/
# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = ''
# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = False
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
# Application definition
INSTALLED_APPS = [
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
]
MIDDLEWARE = [
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]
ROOT_URLCONF = 'website1.urls'
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': ['templates'],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
WSGI_APPLICATION = 'website1.wsgi.application'
# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/settings/#databases
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
}
}
# Password validation
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators
AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
},
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
},
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
},
{
'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
},
]
# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/topics/i18n/
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True
# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/howto/static-files/
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'website1', "static")
]
What i'm doing wrong? Now it seems to me both website adress the same path, so i get the same content for different domains, but i can't find where is my mistake.

it seems for me, you are trying to start django manually, at some port and connect it with nginx
but it is wrong, nginx can serve only static files, and defualt django core python manage.py runserver isn't good enough to use it in production, it is only for testing purpose. You need to connenct it with gunicorn, gunicorn can serve scripts, and nginx for static files. I'll share my configuration which is 100% working with multiple django projects, but i use it on ubuntu
this example project called mail, so you can change "mail" on what you want
mail project deployment:
mkdir mail
cd mail
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install django gunicorn nginx
django-admin.py startproject mail ~/mail
nano ~/mail/mail/settings.py
in settings.py add:
8.a) import os
8.b) ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["*"]
8.c) TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/Moscow'
8.d) STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/')
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser
python manage.py collectstatic
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
13.a) go to "(ip)0.0.0.0:8000/admin" in your browser
the site should work and css styles should be in the admin panel
gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 mail.wsgi
14.a) (run command above^^ in a folder with manage.py )
14.b) go to "(ip)0.0.0.0:8000/admin" the site should work and css styles MUST NOT work
deactivate
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/mail.service
Carefully replace all the words "mail" with the name of your project,
/home/admin/mail >> this is root folder (in config under), keep it in mind, you can check your real path to your project by typing pwd command inside your projects folder
[Unit]
Description=gunicorn daemon
After=network.target
[Service]
User=admin
Group=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/home/admin/mail
ExecStart=/home/admin/mail/venv/bin/gunicorn --access-logfile - --workers 3 --bind unix:/home/admin/mail/mail.sock mail.wsgi:application
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
sudo systemctl start mail
sudo systemctl enable mail
in the mail project folder (where manage.py ) The file SHOULD (MUST) appear “mail.sock”, if it doesn't go to 16 paragraph, you made misstake there
list your folders:
~/mail$ ls
output should look like this:
db.sqlite3 mail mail.sock manage.py static venv
sudo systemctl status mail
it will check status of service for project mail, which should start it with gunicorn
Nginx configuration:
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/mail
replace mail in the config with your project (3 places and 1 address)
/home/admin/mail >> this is root folder (in config under), keep it in mind, you can check your real path to your project by typing pwd command inside your projects folder
server {
listen 80;
server_name adress.mail.com;
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location /static/ {
root /home/admin/mail;
}
location / {
include proxy_params;
proxy_pass http://unix:/home/admin/mail/mail.sock;
}
}
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mail /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
23.a) cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
23.b) type ls
project mail must appear in this folder
sudo nginx -t
this will check nginx for errors
sudo systemctl reload nginx
next you need to assign a domain name in this example adress.mail.com to your ip adress of you virtual machine, with CNAME or A type. But if you have no any domains name, you can assign you ip adress server_name 222.333.444.555;, but in this case you can't use different port, so no multiple django projects for you (buy a domain)
your project will work super good if you done all correctly, if you want to add one more project, just simply redo everything in this list

Django static files not serving in Nginx

My first website with Django on hobby production.
I'am follow the setting guide this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-20-04#checking-for-the-gunicorn-socket-file
my setting.py
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static/')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'media/')
and my nginx config
server {
listen 80;
server_name MYIP;
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location /static/ {
root /home/azhimeblog/needhobby;
}
location /media/ {
root /home/azhimeblog/needhobby;
}
location / {
include proxy_params;
proxy_pass http://unix:/run/gunicorn.sock;
}
}
This result

Django admin dashboard CSS is missing

I just deployed my application to DigitalOcean. Everything works very well, excep admin panel's styling although I've used nginx. Here are my codes:
settings.py:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static_root")
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
]
nginx configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name server_domain_or_IP;
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location /static_root/ {
root /home/my_username/myproject;
}
location / {
include proxy_params;
proxy_pass http://unix:/home/my_username/myproject/myproject.sock;
}
}

Django duplicate admin prefix in url

I'm running Django in Fastcgi Mode
./manage.py runfcgi method=threaded host=127.0.0.1 port=8080
with Nginx
server {
listen 80;
server_name myhostname.com;
access_log /var/log/nginx/sample_project.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/sample_project.error.log;
location /static/ { # STATIC_URL
alias /home/www/myhostname.com/static/; # STATIC_ROOT
expires 30d;
}
location /media/ { # MEDIA_URL
alias /home/www/myhostname/static/; # MEDIA_ROOT
expires 30d;
}
location / {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8080;
}
}
The admin url is
http://myhostname.com/admin/
I notice that every HTML link generated is wrong like this one below
...
Log out
...
Below my url.py
from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
# Examples:
# url(r'^$', 'configuratore.views.home', name='home'),
# url(r'^blog/', include('blog.urls')),
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
It seems that Django is duplicating admin URL but i'm not understanding why.

Make sure to add fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME ""; to your location / block in nginx configuration. By default django prepends it's value to reversed urls, thus setting to empty url should make it work.

Django won't recognize my static files on my dev machine

I've been tasked with fixing some aspects of a django 1.3 site, that runs on Apache/PostgreSql on the server. I'm trying to set it up on my development machine, with a virtual environment with postgres and the internal python developer server.
I managed to get the site running and reading from my local pg instance, but I can't get it to recognize my static files, which are stored in /site_media. The site will soon be rewritten to use django 1.6 and the proper /static folder but for now I need to fix this site.
I also tried running it with nginx and gnunicorn but the result is the same, the site displays but with no style and all references to files in the static dir give a 404. further inspection of the 404 reveals that django is trying to resolve the resources with its router.
Here are the relevant settings:
settings.py:
# Absolute path to the directory that holds media.
# Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/"
MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/nico/src/df2/datos/site_media/'
# URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a
# trailing slash if there is a path component (optional in other cases).
# Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com", "http://example.com/media/"
MEDIA_URL = 'http://localhost:8000/site_media/'
I also added the following config, to no avail:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
)
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
'/home/nico/src/df2/datos/site_media/',
)
STATIC_URL = 'http://localhost:8000/site_media'
nginx config file:
server {
server_name localhost;
access_log off;
location /site_media/ {
alias /home/nico/src/df2/datos/site_media;
}
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
add_header P3P 'CP="ALL DSP COR PSAa PSDa OUR NOR ONL UNI COM NAV"';
}
}
If you need any other config please tell me.
I'd prefer to run this purely from the python server, but a solution with gunicorn/nginx is also fine

The fix was in adding a static handler to the urlpatterns variable:
from django.conf import settings
if settings.DEBUG:
# static files (images, css, javascript, etc.)
urlpatterns += patterns('',
(r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {
'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}))