No mention on nginx

[andybak]

Not sure whether this is just a documentation issue (i.e. it's supported by one of the other backends i.e. WSGI) or whether it's unsupported.

Sorry if it's obvious to others but this area isn't one of my strong points - hence why I'm looking for a nice abstraction library!

[lilspikey]

Hi Andy,

it's not supported at the moment, purely as I was initially only doing this for an app deployed behind apache. If I understand correctly then supporting nginx with accel redirect should be really easy. Been meaning to get around to it, as I think it's possible to get it working by tweaking the wsgi backend somehow. Main issue is then documenting that nginx config.

Care to chip in? Can always meet in Brighton if you want. Hopefully once baby has settled in better sleep patterns I'll make it out to brightonpy too...

cheers,

John (aka lilspikey)

[lilspikey]

http://wiki.nginx.org/XSendfile

Shows it really is going to be very similar to wsgi backend, but with X-Accel-Redirect header instead of just Location.

[andybak]

Ah. Small world, fellow BrightonPy'er...

Just got back from an overly long holiday so might be a while until I can be of use. I do however have a real codebase and a live testing server (currently setting X-Accel-Redirect headers directly) if that would be any help.

[lilspikey]

I'm pretty certain of what needs changing. Perhaps if I setup a branch and make the changes I reckon are needed you could test it?

Perhaps if you could give me the example of how you're currently doing it - so I can easliy get nginx running locally etc too?

[johnsensible]

Ok, I've merged the nginx branch into master now, as I've had a chance to test it running with nginx