localserver using nginx proxy_pass: how can I set the root url to other than localhost

[kharis]

I have a django rest app that runs in localhost in a server. It can be
accessed from outside using nginx proxy_pass. It runs fine until I have a
return value from a model that has a FileField. It returns the full url of
the file: localhost:8000/static/a_file.file. It should be my server public
IP address / domain to access the file, something like:
my.domain.com/static/a_file.file. Can I set the base / root url returned
from the model?

Thanks
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[Jason]

sounds to me you don't have server_name set up for your nginx. But not
sure if this is the relevant place for that, since its not Django/DRF
related, but rather nginx configuration.

Perhaps stackoverflow would be a better place to ask?

[Alex Daigle]

Remove nginx from the equation. Use runserver because you’re clearly still in development. Does your app work then?

IMHO you are not ready to add more things to your stack yet. The ONLY thing that should be in your stack right now is Django, and possibly a different database because ... sqlite? Never.

Nginx is for the C10k issue, sorry for being blunt but is your app public? do you have 10 users? 100? 10,000? A million? If you said no to any of these, then you shouldn’t be using nginx. Thinking about it? Sure, it’s good to plan your application’s growth. Using it? That’s a hard no.

Shorten your stack.

Alex

PS: Test the URL’s with more verbosity by using ‘curl -v’ or ‘http -v’ (from httpie), in the future for more advanced use cases you can setup a proxy to intercept all requests, pause and examine individual responses.

sounds to me you don't have server_name set up for your nginx. But not sure if this is the relevant place for that, since its not Django/DRF related, but rather nginx configuration.
Perhaps stackoverflow would be a better place to ask?
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[Jason]

Post by Alex Daigle
If you said no to any of these, then you shouldn’t be using nginx.

I *strongly* disagree with this. you should use apache with mod_wsg or
nginx with uwsgi/gunicorn/etc for production, in which having 10, 1000 or a
million users is beside the question.

[Alex Daigle]

Jason, we agree. What I mean by having a public app is the same as what you mean by having something in production. Anything in production should have a reverse proxy like nginx or Apache, etc. Reading my message again, I can see why it could have been taken that way when I ranted about the C10k. This (C10k) was an initial goal of the nginx project, not a requirement of its use. I do apologize for that confusion.

Alex

Post by Alex Daigle
If you said no to any of these, then you shouldn’t be using nginx.

I strongly disagree with this. you should use apache with mod_wsg or nginx with uwsgi/gunicorn/etc for production, in which having 10, 1000 or a million users is beside the question.
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[Jason]

Appreciate the clarification!

[kharis]

Appologize for the late reply.

So this is related to nginx configuration?
Okay I'll ask in stack overflow then,

My app is public, but used for testing purpose. I'm still learning to
deploy the app.
I use nginx because there's the need to serve react app along with the
django app, i use different port for different app.

Thank you all for the insight!
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