twisted moinmion with nginx proxy

This brief how to covers getting nginx to proxy to a MoinMoin install running with the twisted back-end.

1. Nginx configuration settings. I wanted to to have nginx act as a proxy front-end for a MoinMoin instance, running with twisted. This is the nginx section that I used. The URL for accessing the Moin instance is http://domain.com/moin/.
   This config is under the server config section.

   location /moin/ {
     proxy_redirect          http://localhost:8080/ /;
     proxy_pass              http://localhost:8080/;
     proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
     proxy_set_header        X-Moin-Location /moin/;
     client_max_body_size    10m;
     client_body_buffer_size 128k;
     proxy_connect_timeout   90;
     proxy_send_timeout      90;
     proxy_read_timeout      90;
     proxy_buffer_size       4k;
     proxy_buffers           4 32k;
     proxy_busy_buffers_size 64k;
     proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;
   }
   

   The real magic is in the X-Moin-Location header. That tells Moin to add that path to the links in the output. Sadly, it took me a while to find that.

2. Moin configuration settings.

   I am running Moin under the twisted framework. The Moin setup is pretty standard. The Moin wiki contains good information on setting up this part of it -- Moin Wiki Twisted.

3. Miscellaneous

   I encountered one problem. The /wiki directory is where the image, css, and other static files are located. Moin wasn't adding the header to those URLs for some reason. So, I just copied those data files, from /usr/share/moin/wiki/htdocs, to the /wiki directory of my nginx webserver. Having the webserver handle these static files directly, is quite a bit faster anyway.