Question

I’m trying to serve multiple django projects using only one instance on fcgi with Nginx.

I saw that django’s using the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to handle the correct project but I can not tell him to choose a specific project at runtime.

I tried ./manage.py –settings=SETTINGS but it is only when you start the process and it can’t be changed dynamically.

I also tried this on nginx:

location /foo {
  fastcgi_split_path_info   ^()(.*)$;
  fastcgi_param             DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE foo.settings;
  fastcgi_param             PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
  include                   fastcgi_params;
  fastcgi_pass              127.0.0.1:8080;
}

location /bar {
  fastcgi_split_path_info   ^()(.*)$;
  fastcgi_param             DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE bar.settings;
  fastcgi_param             PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
  include                   fastcgi_params;
  fastcgi_pass              127.0.0.1:8080;
}

But when I print the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE, it is always at its default value.

So, anyone knows how to redirect a specific URL to a specific django project?

Thank you.

Answer 1

DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE cannot vary between requests. You’ll have to run one fastcgi server per site. For example foo on 127.0.0.1:8080 and bar on 127.0.0.8081.