Pinax deployment with nginx and flup

After A LOT of searches failed attempts, at last I found this solution (kind of) working:

1. first install pinax, using the official guide:

and install the necessary packages

apt-get install python-flup nginx subversion python-mysqldb

2. Modify nginx conf

nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

user www-data;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
    # multi_accept on;
}

http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    tcp_nodelay        on;

    gzip  on;
    gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
    gzip_comp_level  6;
    gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

3. define  foo.com for nginx

nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/foo.com

server {
listen 80;
server_name www.foo.com foo.com;

if ($host != 'foo.com') {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://foo.com/$1 permanent;
}

access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

location / {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:7718;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
fastcgi_pass_header Authorization;
fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
}

location /robots.txt {
alias /www/foo/media/robots.txt;
}


location /site_media/ {
expires 7d;
alias /www/foo/media/;
}

location /media/ {
alias /www/env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media;
}
}

Boring Symlink：

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/foo.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/foo.com

4. Start nginx and fcgi

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
python /www/foo/manage.py runfcgi host=127.0.0.1 port=7718 pidfile=/www/foo/foocom.pid maxspare=2

Some useful commands:

If you don’t know where your Python site directory is:

python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()"

Thanks goes to Thinking Critically