Today, we were trying to run the Django application on a subpath say /backend/ . We were able to run it but some URL redirection from the application was still pointing it to the / URL instead of /backend/
Let me share the configuration a high level, please comment if you need any clarification.
My Django project was running with gunicorn on the URL http://127.0.0.1:8180/
Below is the configuration on my Apache, and yes the application should be on h
SSLProxyEngine on ProxyPreserveHost On ###########proxy settings### ProxyPass http://127.0.0.1:8180/ ProxyPassReverse http://127.0.0.1:8180/ RequestHeader set "Host" "www.nixjango.com" RequestHeader set X-SCRIPT-NAME '/backend/' ProxyErrorOverride Off
With the above configuration the application will still forward any redirection from the /backend/ , ie say /backend/admin/ to /admin . So we need to add force /backend from the settings.py on the Django Code.
So, simply add these lines to your settings.py
FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME = '/backend'
USE_X_FORWARDED_HOST = True
SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER = ('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO', 'https')
Once the above lines are added, restart gunicorn and apache. Now, you will be able to access the /backend/ and /backend/admin/ URL redirection will just work fine.
