CentOS 5.x comes packaged with Python 2.4, if you’re developing software with another version of Python you’re going to want to do one of two things. You can either thoroughly test your application against Python 2.4 or you can install the same version of Python that the software was written with. In my case I’ve been using Python2.5 so I’ll be configuring my server to use that instead.
Doing some research on which search backend to use with Haystack I’ve decided on trying out Solr first. Solr is a search engine that runs on the JVM and comes highly recommened. Since I had never installed any Java software before it was a little intimidating, but as always I was up for the challenge.
Previously we installed Nginx to proxy all our dynamic requests to Apache2 only we haven’t installed it yet. In this article will setup Apache2 and configure it to handle proxy requests from Nginx.
In this article we’ll be setting up Nginx as a proxy server. Nginx is a lightweight server that can handle tons of traffic while keeping a low memory footprint. Because Nginx can only handle serving static content we’ll have to proxy incoming dynamic requests to a server that can handle them such as Apache or a FastCGI server. Although this article is geared towards Ubuntu you should be able to use the Nginx configuration settings with slight modification in other distros as well. Let’s get started.