How can I use django's built-in server behind nginx?

Question

I'm developing with apache2 ( mpm-worker ) + mod_wsgi behind nginx which is silly since I have to sudo apache2ctl graceful for every update I make in anything but the template files.

My nginx conf is:

server {
        listen 80; 
        server_name site.org;

        access_log /www/site.org/log/access.log;
        error_log /www/site.org/log/error.log;

        location / { 
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
                proxy_redirect off;

                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-Magic-Header "secret";
                client_max_body_size       10m;
        }

}

Would it be a matter of just binding proxy_pass to 127.0.0.1:3000 if 3000 is the port used by the django server?

Answer 1

Ack, didn't realize it was this easy... I..

• copied the server {} settings into another file
• changed the port to 3001
• changed the server name to dev.site.org
• updated my host records in the DNS to point to my server IP
• restarted nginx
• did manage.py runserver 3001.

All is well :)