NGINX

Some tips on Nginx for use with Django

Files

Just add a new file to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled for each site, making sure server_name is set correctly in each.

Redirecting to SSL

We usually want to force SSL:

server {
  listen *:80;
  listen [::]:80;
  server_name DOMAIN;
  access_log PATH_access.log;
  error_log PATH_error.log;
  return 301 https://DOMAIN$request_uri;
}

Proxying to gunicorn

Serve static and media files with nginx, and proxy everything else to Django:

upstream django {
  server unix:/tmp/PATH fail_timeout=0;
}

server {
  listen *:443 ssl;   # add spdy here too if you want
  listen [::]:443 ssl;
  server_name DOMAIN;
  ssl_certificate PATH.crt;
  ssl_certificate_key PATH.key;

  access_log PATH_access.log;
  error_log PATH_error.log;
  root PATH;
  location /media {
    alias PATH;
  }
  location /static {
    alias PATH;
  }
  location / {
    client_max_body_size 500M;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_buffering on;
    proxy_intercept_errors on;
    proxy_pass http://django;
  }

  # See https://www.trevorparker.com/hardening-ssl-in-nginx/
  ssl_protocols             TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
  ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
  ssl_ciphers               DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES1\
28-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM\
-SHA384:kEDH+AESGCM:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES\
256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SH\
A256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SH\
A384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SH\
A256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:\
!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA;
  ssl_session_timeout       5m;
  ssl_session_cache         shared:SSL:10m;

  add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000;
}