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You can probably also use this for just Django + nginx on Ubuntu too, it should work the same for any Django-based package, just change the Transifex-specific stuff (like /site_media and such.)

Dependencies:

• python-django package from Ubuntu (currently Jaunty's 1.0.2-1ubuntu0.1)
• Transifex installed to /home/transifex/web/transifex, from source
• Transifex setup to answer over fastcgi on port 8080
• Tested on nginx 0.7.x and 0.8.x compiled from source

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

server {
   listen 80;
   server_name foo.com;
   include /etc/nginx/confs/defaults.conf;
   location / {
      fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8080;
      include /etc/nginx/confs/django.conf;
   }      
   location /site_media {
      root /home/transifex/web/transifex;
      include /etc/nginx/confs/expires.conf;
   }
   location /media {         
      root /usr/share/python-support/python-django/django/contrib;
      include /etc/nginx/confs/expires.conf;
   }
}

/etc/nginx/confs/defaults.conf:

location ~ /\.ht {
   deny all;
}

location ~ \.svn {
   deny all;
}

log_not_found off;
server_name_in_redirect off;

/etc/nginx/confs/django.conf:

# http://www.rkblog.rk.edu.pl/w/p/django-nginx/
# http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ServerArrangements
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;

/etc/nginx/confs/expires.conf:

location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ {
   expires max;
   access_log off;
}