Sorry for the beginner question, but I can’t seem to find an example
anywhere that shows how to handle nginx hosting more than one reverse
proxy
(such as a Django app and an Ipython notebook) where both systems have
static files in different directories.
The relevant parts of my nginx conf look something like this -
location /django { #gunicorn server running on localhost port 8000
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000/;
}
location /ipython { #ipython notebook server (tornado) running on localhost port 9999
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9999/;
}
location /static {
alias /opt/django/django_project/static/; #alias /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/IPython/html/static/;
}
Is there a way to specify two different directories of static files or
nest
a location /static/ inside the other blocks? Intuitively nesting
doesn’t
work, because the css is calling /static, not /ipython/static or
/django/static.
My end goal would be to go to http://mysite.com/django/ to see my Django
pages and http://mysite.com/ipython/ to get to my ipython notebook
server.
Either one works right now if I point location /static {} to the
appropriate
alias, but I don’t know how to get both working at the same time.
I think your comment “intuitively nesting doesn’t work” is correct - you
wish to merge the uri spaces of django and ipython into one, which means
that if both apps need (eg) /static/css/main.css, they will collide and
one
app will always get the wrong file. It might be that you can avoid
collisions of this type by chance, but then you run the risk of
collision
occurring due to an upgrade of either app.
I would either a) see if you can modify the static files location for
the
apps, or serve one / both off a subdomain - notebook.mysite.com or
similiar. If you really want to try the “merge” approach, try_files Module ngx_http_core_module might
be
of use.
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