Get Welcome to nginx page with my django web project

Posted on September 24, 2017

I am using “one-click” django set up. Website was working fine last week, but I found it cannot redirect to my home page anymore today. It shows: “Welcome to nginx! If you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required.” After searching on old questions, I looked at my “default” file under /etc/nginx/sites-available directory, it already has “root /var/www/html;”. I tried to set listen port to 8080 as well, but it did not work. I do not know what to do now, anyone can help please?

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Bobby

January 28, 2023

Hi there,

It sounds like that the Nginx server block does not contain the required reverse proxy rules to forward the traffic to your Django app as described here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-18-04

Example:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name server_domain_or_IP;

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location /static/ {
        root /home/sammy/myproject;
    }

    location / {
        include proxy_params;
        proxy_pass http://unix:/home/sammy/myproject/myproject.sock;
    }
}