My flask app is deployed to heroku and all routes are working as expected.
I want the example.com/blog to load my wordpress that is hosted on different server. example.com and all routes are under flask app. And app is running with heroku.
Is it possible to point example.com/blog to different ip address?
I know that subdomain can do this job, but I am not fan of subdomains. As far as I know, it can be done via reverse proxy and I don't know how to set it up in heroku.
I'm using gunicorn web server.
I would like to deploy a Django application on a cloud server using CPanel. The issue is that I cannot find any articles which describe the process of deploying Django applications with Uvicorn on CPanel.
I'm building a fullstack Django app with react js , webpack and babel. My django backend is serving my react frontend as an app via port 8000 with webpack bundling my reactjs. I want to be able to containerize my app so that i will have independent services that ie frontend as container, backend as a container and probably postgresql as a container.
Now the major challenge i'm facing is how best can i separate these two main service frontend and backend considering that my Django backend is serving my frontend reactjs app via port 8000. I dont want to use create react app to serve my frontend at its own port 3000, i want to go the webpack and babel route, where i create a frontend app in Django that will host my react js app and its static files.
Ultimately my folder structure looks something similar to this
-django-app
-fontend-app
-src-react
-components
-actions
-reducers
App.js
-static
-templates
index.html
urls.py
-another-app
-django-app
settings.py
Dockerfile
manage.py
package.json
webpack.config.js
.babelrc
Also consider a solution that will be able to make the application scalable ie, providing scaling functionality for the frontend app and backend app services repsectively.
If you're looking to separate/decouple your frontend and backend, I would recommend using something like webpack dev server to serve the frontend in development. For the backend, you should just be able to copy your Django app into a Docker image based on the official Python Docker image.
That will solve development, then for staging/production you can use any cloud offering to serve the backend (I like to use Google Cloud Run), and any static content host for serving the frontend (I like to use Netlify for this). This will allow your application components to automatically scale independently.
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I want to use gunicorn for a REST API application with Flask/Python. What is the purpose of adding nginx here to gunicorn? The gunicorn site recommends using gunicorn with nginx.
Nginx has some web server functionality (e.g., serving static pages; SSL handling) that gunicorn does not, whereas gunicorn implements WSGI (which nginx does not).
... Wait, why do we need two servers? Think of Gunicorn as the
application web server that will be running behind nginx – the front-
facing web server. Gunicorn is WSGI-compatible. It can talk to other
applications that support WSGI, like Flask or Django.
Source: https://realpython.com/blog/python/kickstarting-flask-on-ubuntu-setup-and-deployment/
Nginx is a reverse proxy for Gunicorn. Gunicorn serves your Flask app and Nginx sits in front of it and decides where a request should go. For example, if the incoming request is an http request Nginx redirects it to gunicorn, if it is for a static file, it serves it itself. Read more about how to use Nginx and Gunicorn and how to deploy them starting from here.
Gunicorn is an application server for running your python application instance.
NGINX is a reverse proxy. It accepts incoming connections and decides where they should go next. It is in front of Gunicorn.
Do you know why the Django mascot is a pony? The story is that Django
comes with so many things you want: an ORM, all sorts of middleware,
the admin site… "What else do you want, a pony?" Well, Gunicorn
stands for "Green Unicorn" - obeythetestinggoat.com
Nginx is the front face for your server.
Gunicorn runs multiple django projects(each project is a wsgi
application powered by Gunicorn) in a single server(say Ubuntu).
Every request comes to nginx and asks for which gunicorn application
should it go and it redirects it.
NOTE - Gunicorn cannot serve static files automatically as your local django server does. So you will need nginx for that again.
In production nginx works as reverse proxy. It means users will hit nginx from browser and nginx will forward the call to your application.
Hope this helps.
I am trying to deploy a Flask application I developed in an already existing IIS server. The problem is that the IIS version is 6 and is installed in a Windows 2003 server. I tried and failed deploying it onto the existing IIS server.
As a work-around, I have decided to use a Linux VM and deploy the application on uWSGI / nGinx server.
Now, since I have very little understanding of the way web servers work, I want to know if I would be able to deploy the flask application on nginx and link it with IIS? I don't even know if the question makes sense. But basically I just want the same URL that is now used to ping IIS also to ping nginx.
For ex. //TestServer/app1 is on IIS. So can //TestServer/app2 be called in from nginx?
Thanks.