Simple configuration: Django + Nginx + Gunicorn

gunicorn-proj

# /etc/gunicorn.d/gunicorn-proj

CONFIG = {
    'mode': 'django',
    'user': 'myuser',
    'group': 'myuser',
    'working_dir': '/path/to/django/proj',

    'environment': {
        'PYTHONPATH': '/path/to/django/proj'
    },

    'args': (
        '--bind=127.0.0.1:8040',
        '--workers=3',
        'conf.settings',
    ),
}

nginx-proj

# /etc/nginx/sites-available/nginx-proj

upstream app_server {
    server 127.0.0.1:8040;
}

server {
    listen my.ip.or.dns:80;

    location /static/ {
        alias /path/to/static/;
    }

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8040;
        proxy_pass_request_headers on;
    }
}

settings.py

# /path/to/django/proj/conf/settings.py
# Django project settings file (moved into a separate directory, `conf`)

# ...

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['127.0.0.1']

STATIC_ROOT = '/path/to/static/'

# ...

Simple configuration to get started with Nginx, Gunicorn, and Django.

After installing Nginx and Gunicorn (through apt-get), and setting up the above configurations, you can start the web server with:

$ service nginx start
$ service gunicorn start