Comments on: Nginx & Django on Webfaction – Part 3

By: Passy

Passy — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:24:39 +0000

Excellent post, exactly what I was searching for. Thanks for sharing!

By: Gordon

Gordon — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:36:31 +0000

I’m trying to setup an upload progress bar using Nginx with Passenger and Rails on WebFaction. The problem I’m having is that it reports as “starting” for the duration of the upload, then jumps the progress bar to 100% for a split second at the end of the upload. I’ve tried asking the WebFaction guys for help, also Stack Overflow and googling around, but did not get anywhere. I realize that it may be the different technologies in use that are causing my problems eg not using fastcgi, passenger, etc. but i was just wondering if you had thoughts on if there might be any salient details I might be missing.

This is the conf file I have currently:
http://pastie.org/836127

Any advice would be much appreciate!

By: Ian Schenck

Ian Schenck — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:13:18 +0000

Actually, I just had to move away from Cherokee because it both caches the upload and doesn’t have any replacement such as Nginx’s upload progress module.

There is an open ticket and the Cherokee guys are aware of it. If it wasn’t for this issue (admittedly, combined with some laziness), I’d still be using it.

By: Richard Cooper

Richard Cooper — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:19:19 +0000

Nginx was specifically designed to move work away from the back end process and thus the core Nginx sever does this caching. I believe that the author Igor is now considering changing this and adding a server directive to allow you to bypass the proxy/caching of uploads. In the meantime you could write (or get someone to write) an upload passthrough module. I suggest you ask this question on the Nginx mailing list to find out a timeline for this from Igor. If this is complete blocker for you then I suggest you stick with apache or consider something like lighttpd or cherokee

By: Daniel Gollás

Daniel Gollás — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:40:52 +0000

I spent a day implementing a custom UploadHandler in django only to find out that it won’t really work with an nginx proxy since it will not stream the upload but instead cache it until it is complete… so is nginx progress module the only way to get progress? Do you know if there is a way to get nginx to actually send me (django upload handler) chunks of data as they arrive?

The progress module is great for progress reporting but what if I want to do something a little more customized to my data as it arrives? I think it falls a little short.

By: Richard Cooper

Richard Cooper — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:11:13 +0000

Thanks,
I’ve updated the title, and I’m glad you like the post.

Regards,
Richard.

By: Mauricio Q.

Mauricio Q. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:00:58 +0000

Great Article. As a minor comment, you HTML title text says “dajngo” instead of “django” that probably affects search engine indexing bla bla…

Thanks again for this post.