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Problem serving Django "polls" tutorial under lighttpd: 404 page not found

I am following the Django polls tutorial, which is working 100% with the built-in development server (python3 manage.py runserver).

I have set up lighttpd to serve django through UWSGI and that seems to be working fine but for one glitch: the URL passed to django seems to have been modified.

My lighttpd configuration is basically this:

...
server.modules += ("mod_scgi","mod_rewrite")
scgi.protocol = "uwsgi"
scgi.server   = (
    "/polls" => ((
             "host" => "localhost",
             "port" => 7000,
             "check-local" => "disable",
    ))
)

The Django tutorial mapping looks like:

# tutorial1/urls.py
urlpatterns = [
    path('polls/', include('polls.urls')),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

# polls/urls.py
app_name = 'polls'
urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.IndexView.as_view(), name='index'),
    path('<int:pk>/', views.DetailView.as_view(), name='detail'),
    path('<int:pk>/results/', views.ResultsView.as_view(), name='results'),
    path('<int:question_id>/vote/', views.vote, name='vote'),
]

However when I hit http://localhost:8080/polls/ in the address bar, it produces an 404 error.

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If I add an extra /polls to the URL then it works just fine.

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My goal with this exercise is to be able to serve this app switching from and to both servers without needing to modify configuration files each time.

What do I need to do on the lighttpd.conf side to make lighttpd interchangeable with Django's own internal dev server?

I have tried to add the following url.rewrite rule but it messes up completely the URL handling.

url.rewrite = (
    "^/polls/(.*)$" => "/polls/polls/$1"
)

With the URL rewrite, the first call http://127.0.0.1/polls/ works fine but the links to the detail posts are generated as http://127.0.0.1/polls/polls/1 and the resulting sub-url polls/1 is not recognized by the polls/urls.py settings.

Using the empty path in lighttpd server:

    scgi.protocol = "uwsgi"
    scgi.server   = (
        "" => ((
                 "host" => "localhost",
                 "port" => 7000,
                 "check-local" => "disable",
        ))
    )

Produces this very weird result: enter image description here

The Raised by: polls.views.DetailView means that the URL is actually being parsed and forwarded correctly to the Polls Detail view, which is 100% the correct handler, but it is somehow raising a 404? WTF

Thank you!

Solution

  • As stated here

    The setting of the variable fix-root-scriptname is required for some versions of Lighttpd to fix a bug in Lighttpd when it is running a SCGI server rooted at /.

    scgi.server   = (
    "/" => ((
             "host" => "localhost",
             "port" => 7000,
             "check-local" => "disable",
             "fix-root-scriptname" => "enable",
    ))

    Previous answer:

    Have you tried using an empty string? (It's a not a proper answer to the question but I can't make a comment)