Django on fastcgi and nginx featuring transifex.

fastcgi.sh

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          FastCGI servers for Django
# Required-Start:    $network
# Required-Stop:     $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start FastCGI servers with Django.
# Description:       Django, in order to operate with FastCGI, must be started
#                    in a very specific way with manage.py. This must be done
#                    for each DJango web server that has to run.
### END INIT INFO
#
# Author:  Guillermo Fernandez Castellanos
#          <guillermo.fernandez.castellanos AT gmail.com>.
#
# Version: @(#)fastcgi 0.1 11-Jan-2007 guillermo.fernandez.castellanos AT gmail.com
#

# REFERENCES:
# Taken from: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/InitdScriptForLinux

#### SERVER SPECIFIC CONFIGURATION
ENVIRONMENT=/home/transifex/.virtualenvs/testtransifex/bin/
SITE=/home/transifex/.virtualenvs/testtransifex/lib/python2.7/site-packages/transifex-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/transifex/
RUNFILES_FOLDER=/var/run/django-transifex
RUNFILES_PATH=$RUNFILES_FOLDER/transifex
RUN_AS=transifex
FCGI_METHOD=threaded
#### DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING AFTER THIS LINE!

set -e

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC="Transifex FastCGI server"
NAME=$0
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

#
#       Function that starts the daemon/service.
#
d_start()
{
    # Starting all Django FastCGI processes
    if [ -f ${RUNFILES_PATH}.pid ]; then
        echo " already running"
    else
        mkdir -p $RUNFILES_FOLDER
        chown transifex:transifex $RUNFILES_FOLDER
        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet \
                   --pidfile ${RUNFILES_PATH}.pid \
                   --chuid $RUN_AS --exec /usr/bin/env -- $ENVIRONMENT/python \
                   $SITE/manage.py runfcgi \
                   method=$FCGI_METHOD \
                   socket=${RUNFILES_PATH}.socket \
                   pidfile=${RUNFILES_PATH}.pid

        chmod 400 ${RUNFILES_PATH}.pid
        chmod g+w ${RUNFILES_PATH}.socket
    fi
}

#
#       Function that stops the daemon/service.
#
d_stop() {
    # Killing all Django FastCGI processes running
    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile ${RUNFILES_PATH}.pid \
                      || echo " not running"
    if [ -f ${RUNFILES_PATH}.pid ]; then
       rm ${RUNFILES_PATH}.pid
    fi
}

ACTION="$1"
case "$ACTION" in
    start)
        echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
        d_start
        echo "."
        ;;

    stop)
        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
        d_stop
        echo "."
        ;;

    restart|force-reload)
        echo -n "Restarting $DESC: $NAME"
        d_stop
        sleep 1
        d_start
        echo "."
        ;;

    *)
        echo "Usage: $NAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2
        exit 3
        ;;
esac

exit 0

server.conf

# Nginx configuration snippet

server {

        listen   80;
        server_name transifex;

        location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
        }

        location ~ \.svn {
        deny all;
        }

        log_not_found off;
        server_name_in_redirect off;


        location / {
                # First attempt to serve request as file, then
                # as directory, then fall back to index.html
                #try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
                # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
                # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
                fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
                fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
                fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
                fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
                fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
                fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
                fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
                fastcgi_pass_header Authorization;
                fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/django-transifex/transifex.socket;
                fastcgi_read_timeout 300s;
                fastcgi_send_timeout 300s;
        }

        location /site_media {
                root /home/transifex/.virtualenvs/testtransifex/lib/python2.7/site-packages/transifex-1.2.1-py2.7.egg/transifex;
                location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ {
                        expires max;
                        access_log off;
                }
        }

        location /media {
                root /home/transifex/.virtualenvs/testtransifex/lib/python2.7/site-packages/Django-1.3.1-py2.7.egg/django/contrib;
                location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ {
                        expires max;
                        access_log off;
                }
        }
}