Django on Nginx

apt-get install python-scgi // Server-side implementation of the SCGI protocol

nginx.conf

user  www-data;

worker_processes  2;

error_log /var/log/nginx/error_log info;

events {
	worker_connections  1024;
	use epoll;
}

http {
	include		/etc/nginx/mime.types;
	default_type	application/octet-stream;

	log_format main
		'$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
         	'"$request" $status $bytes_sent '
		'"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" '
		'"$gzip_ratio"';

	client_header_timeout	10m;
	client_body_timeout	10m;
	send_timeout		10m;

	connection_pool_size		256;
	client_header_buffer_size	1k;
	large_client_header_buffers	4 2k;
	request_pool_size		4k;

	gzip on;
	gzip_min_length	1100;
	gzip_buffers	4 8k;

gzip_types text/plain;

	output_buffers	1 32k;
	postpone_output	1460;

	sendfile	on;
	tcp_nopush	on;
	tcp_nodelay	on;

	keepalive_timeout	75 20;

	ignore_invalid_headers	on;

index index.html;

server { listen 80; server_name localhost; # site_media - folder in uri for static files location /site_media { root /path/to/media/folder; }

location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js|mov) {
  access_log   off; # po co mi logi obrazków :)
  expires      30d; 
}
		location / {
 			# host and port to fastcgi server
			fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8080;
			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;
			}
		access_log	/var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log main;
		error_log	/var/log/nginx/localhost.error_log;
		}
	}

start your nginx fastcgi processes

python manage.py runfcgi host=127.0.0.1 port=8080 --settings=settings
or
python manage.py runfcgi host=127.0.0.1 port=8080 --settings=settings --pythonpath=/a/path/to/somewhere/
http://127.0.0.1