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;
}