Nginx HTTP conf for Django (https://medium.com/@charlesthk/deploy-nginx-django-uwsgi-on-aws-ec2-amazon-linux-517a683163c6)

my-website.com.conf

server {
    listen             80;
    server_tokens      off;
    server_name        www.my-website.com;
    return             301 http://my-website.com$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen                   80;
    server_name              my-website.com;
    client_max_body_size     10M;
    access_log               /var/log/my-website.com.access.log;
    error_log                /var/log/my-website.com.error.log;
   
    # -------------
    # Handle Django
    # -------------
    location / {
        proxy_pass       http://localhost:8000;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade            $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection         "upgrade";
        proxy_set_header Host               $host;
        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;
    }
    
    # ------------------
    # serve static files
    # ------------------


    # here we assume the STATIC_ROOT inside your django project is
    # set to /static/ 
    location /static/ {
        alias   /home/ec2-user/django/static/;
    }
    
    # -----------
    # Enable GZIP
    # -----------
    gzip               on;
    gzip_disable       "msie6";                                            
    gzip_vary          on;                                                     
    gzip_types         text/plain
                       text/css
                       application/json
                       application/javascript
                       application/x-javascript
                       text/xml
                       application/xml
                       application/xml+rss
                       text/javascript
                       image/svg+xml;
    gzip_proxied       any;
    gzip_comp_level    6;                                                
    gzip_buffers       16  8k;  
    gzip_http_version  1.0;   
    
    # ------------
    # Cache assets
    # ------------
    location ~* .(ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|css
                  |rss|atom|js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz
                  |gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi
                  |wav|bmp|rtf)$ {
        expires max;
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }    
                                     
}