I have created one Django app which has two apps named "api" and "consumer". Now I want to use subdomains for both of this app. Like api.server.com and server.com. I searched online and found django-hosts so I implemented in my localhost and its working fine.
After that I deployed it on AWS EC2 instance and created subdomain in Godaddy and point both root domain and subdomain to my instance IP. Root domain is working fine but when I try to go api.server.com, it shows me default Welcome to Nginx screen. Please help me with this issue.
nginx.conf
server{
server_name server.com, api.server.com;
access_log /var/log/nginx/example.log;
location /static/ {
alias /home/path/to/static/;
}
location / {
include proxy_params;
proxy_pass http://unix:/home/username/project/project.sock;
}
}
You don't need the , a simple space will do.
server_name server.com api.server.com;
Also you can use wildcards, see the documentation.
server_name *.server.com;
You don't have to use a plugin (like django-hosts) to achieve what you are trying to do. Create 2 different nginx configurations for each subdomain you want to create (server.com and api.server.com), and forward requests from api.server.com to /api URL and request from server.com to /. Following is a basic example.
server.com
server {
listen 80;
server_name server.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000$request_uri;
}
}
api.server.com
server {
listen 80;
server_name api.server.com;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000/api$request_uri;
}
}
I recommend not to depend on 3rd party plugins unnecessarily. Refer https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/web-server/reverse-proxy/ for more details.