nginx config to act as cheeseshop

nginx-cheeseshop.conf

# the inactive time is set really high so that we can still serve stale entries if pypi is down
proxy_cache_path /srv/pypi/cache/html levels=1:2 keys_zone=pypi-html-cache:8m max_size=100m inactive=2000h;
proxy_cache_path /srv/pypi/cache/package levels=1:2 keys_zone=pypi-package-cache:100m max_size=1000m inactive=2000h;
proxy_temp_path /srv/pypi/cache/tmp;

server {

    listen        80;                                                    

    server_name   pypi.yourdomain.com;

    access_log    /var/log/nginx/pypi_access.log;
    error_log     /var/log/nginx/pypi_error.log;

    root /path/to/your/pypi/packages/;

    rewrite_log on;

    location /packages/ {
        # a request to /packages/ means the client wants a tarball of a package.
        # first we see if we have the file in our package directory (ie, it is a
        # private package) and if not, we fall back on the proxy to the main pypi
       	try_files $uri $uri/ @pypi_packages;
    }

    location / {
        # redirect an empty path to /simple to match the behaviour of pypi.python.org
        rewrite ^ http://pypi.yourdomain.com/simple$uri;
    }

    location /simple/ {
        # similar to packages - we'll try to serve our own index files if we have them
        # and if not, fall back on the main pypi
       	alias /path/to/your/pypi/packages/;
       	try_files $uri $uri/ @pypi_html;
    }

    location @pypi_html {
        # we declare separate proxies for HTML and packages to give different TTLs 
        # this is because we want the HTML to refresh much quicker (to get information
        # about new releases) but keep packages much longer (to protect against pypi
        # downtime)
     	
        proxy_redirect    off;
        proxy_set_header  Host             $http_host;
        proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

        # cache everything!
        proxy_cache_min_uses 0;

        proxy_cache pypi-html-cache;

        # cache HTML for a maximum of 1 hour
        proxy_cache_valid  200 302  1h;
        proxy_cache_valid  404      1m;

        proxy_pass        http://pypi.python.org;

        # serve what we have if pypi is down
        proxy_cache_use_stale error timeout invalid_header http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504;

    }

    location @pypi_packages {
     	proxy_redirect    off;
        proxy_set_header  Host             $http_host;
        proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

        # cache everything!
        proxy_cache_min_uses 0;

        proxy_cache pypi-package-cache;
        proxy_ignore_headers "Cache-Control";

        # cache packages for a day
        proxy_cache_valid  200 302  24h;
        proxy_cache_valid  404      1m;

        proxy_pass        http://pypi.python.org;

        # serve what we have if pypi is down
        proxy_cache_use_stale error timeout invalid_header http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504;
    }
}