Configure the Proxy Server

Installing NGINX

NGINX is not a Python package, so it can’t be inferred from the Pipfile. Instead, we need to explicitly tell Heroku to install it using the buildpack.

$ heroku buildpacks:add heroku-community/nginx

NGINX configuration

The easiest way to set up NGINX is to serve files from a directory. However, that’s not going to be good enough here, so we need to look into customizing its configuration file. We’ll put our NGINX and Gunicorn configuration files in a new config directory at the top of the Git repository. ...