# Django with Nginx + Uvicorn - Configuration issues

**URL:** <https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-with-nginx-uvicorn-configuration-issues/8656>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [July 7, 2021, 5:43am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-with-nginx-uvicorn-configuration-issues/8656 "2021-07-07T05:43:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![tibibs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/tibibs/32/1772_2.png) [@tibibs](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/tibibs)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 5:43am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-with-nginx-uvicorn-configuration-issues/8656/1 "2021-07-07T05:43:26Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to run a Django website with channels activated to use the websocket. Everything is working fine when using runserver, but things are getting spicy while switching to Nginx + Uvicorn.

here is my /etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.service

```auto

[Unit]
Description=gunicorn daemon
Requires=gunicorn.socket
After=network.target

[Service]
User=root
Group=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/home/myapp/
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/gunicorn -w 1 -k uvicorn.workers.UvicornWorker --timeout 300 --bind unix:/home/myapp/myapp.sock myapp.asgi:application

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

```

here is my /etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.socket

```auto
[Unit]
Description=gunicorn socket

[Socket]
ListenStream=/home/myapp/myapp.sock

[Install]
WantedBy=sockets.target

```

and here is my /etc/nginx/sites-available/myapp

```auto
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name myapp.box 10.42.0.1;
    
    
    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location ~ ^/static {
        autoindex on;
        root /home/myapp;
    }

    location ~ ^/ {
        include proxy_params;
        proxy_pass http://unix:/home/myapp/myapp.sock;
    }
    location @proxy_to_app {
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_redirect off;
        proxy_buffering off;
        
        proxy_pass http://unix:/home/myapp/myapp.sock;
    }
}

```

Nginx is running, the socket and gunicorn an issue with gunicorn showing the below error message.

```auto
Jul 07 11:14:11 hostname gunicorn[1825]: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/django/conf/ __init__.py", line 76, in __getattr__
Jul 07 11:14:11 hostname gunicorn[1825]: self._setup(name)
Jul 07 11:14:11 hostname gunicorn[1825]: File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/django/conf/ __init__.py", line 57, in _setup
Jul 07 11:14:11 hostname gunicorn[1825]: raise ImproperlyConfigured(
Jul 07 11:14:11 hostname gunicorn[1825]: django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Requested setting INSTALLED_APPS, but settings are not configured. You must either define the envir>
Jul 07 11:14:11 hostname gunicorn[1825]: [2021-07-07 11:14:11 +0800] [1825] [INFO] Worker exiting (pid: 1825)
Jul 07 11:14:12 hostname gunicorn[1822]: [2021-07-07 11:14:12 +0800] [1822] [INFO] Shutting down: Master
Jul 07 11:14:12 hostname gunicorn[1822]: [2021-07-07 11:14:12 +0800] [1822] [INFO] Reason: Worker failed to boot.

```

When I am trying to reach my website, I have the page “Welcome to nginx!” and impossible to get the pages from my site (logical as Gunicorn can’t get Django running)

I also attach my /home/myapp/asgi.py file

```auto
"""
ASGI config for myapp project.

It exposes the ASGI callable as a module-level variable named ``application``.

For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/deployment/asgi/
"""
import os
from channels.auth import AuthMiddlewareStack
from channels.routing import ProtocolTypeRouter, URLRouter
from django.core.asgi import get_asgi_application
import myapp.routing
import MyApp.routing

os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'myapp.settings')
django.setup()

application = ProtocolTypeRouter({
    "http": get_asgi_application(),
    "websocket": AuthMiddlewareStack( URLRouter( MyApp.routing.websocket_urlpatterns ) ),
    # Just HTTP for now. (We can add other protocols later.)
})

```

Anyone would get an idea of what is going on and where I am missing something?

thank you,

Tibibs

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**Author:** ![KenWhitesell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/kenwhitesell/32/280_2.png) [@KenWhitesell](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/KenWhitesell)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 11:12am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-with-nginx-uvicorn-configuration-issues/8656/2 "2021-07-07T11:12:52Z")

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What’s your directory structure for you application within /home/myapp?

If it’s something like:

```auto
/home/myapp
    myproject
        myapp
            asgi.py
            settings.py
            ...
        myapp2
        myapp3

```

then your WorkingDirectory should probably be /home/myapp/myproject.

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**Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-with-nginx-uvicorn-configuration-issues/8656/3 "2021-07-07T11:33:14Z")

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Hi,

The structure is as below

```auto
/home/myapp/
	manage.py
	myapp.sock
	myapp/
		asgi.py
		wsgi.py
		settings.py
		urls.py
	MyApp/
		views.py
		urls.py
		templates/
	MyApp2/
		views.py
		urls.py
		templates/

```

I have renamed it in my files to be more generic, I admit the choice of the naming is not the smartest.  
You need to consider the MyApp being case sensitive (lowercase is project name, Capitalized is the app)

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**Author:** ![KenWhitesell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/kenwhitesell/32/280_2.png) [@KenWhitesell](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/KenWhitesell)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-with-nginx-uvicorn-configuration-issues/8656/5 "2021-07-07T12:00:03Z")

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My first inclination would be to run gunicorn from the command line with --log-level debug, to see if there’s any additional useful information provided.

(Also, it appears you could possibly encounter a permissions issue with that socket file. You’re also running gunicorn as root - something I _never_ recommend.)

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**Author:** ![tibibs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/tibibs/32/1772_2.png) [@tibibs](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/tibibs)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/django-with-nginx-uvicorn-configuration-issues/8656/6 "2021-07-07T15:03:15Z")

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Ok, I have managed to fix it.  
in the asgi.py, I am importing some external modules, and settings.py must be loaded first.  
I have added the 2 below lines on top of my asgi.py

```auto
import django
django.setup()

```

before qll the imports, and it seems to work so far