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I just started developing in Django a few days back. After finishing a few applications I read that Django is best served using nginx for static content and a reverse proxy to apache for dynamic contents. Is there a particular reason that this configuration preferred over any other?

Also, although this seems to be the standard approach I havent yet been able to find a proper tutorial or document that walks through such a configuration. Most seem to be incomplete/non-working.

It would be great if someone could explain to me how this is to be done or point in the right direction or maybe link a tutorial here.

Thanks in advance.

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I suggest to use nginx and gunicorn/uwsgi configuration, it more common this days and easier to setup/configure that apache. A proper tutorials can be found here:

1) django + gunicorn and a more complete tutorial with supervisor, fabric here

2) django + uwsgi

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I tried the first link but it only shows the nginx welcome page. Also others seem non-ubuntu, will give it a shot anyway.
If it give you a welcome page that you didnt set a proxy-pass directive. location / { proxy_pass 127.0.0.1:8888; } if its set all request will be passed to gunicorn.
For ubuntu you can use this app that will do this configuration automatically pypi.python.org/pypi/django-fagungis
fagungis seems great but at the end of deployment it gives me an error statis project NOT STARTED(apparently supervisor is not able to start gunicorn) and my domain gives a bad gateway error. Is there anyway to resolve this?
Supervisor having issues spwaning the blog project. INFO spawned: 'blog' with pid 15772 INFO exited: blog (exit status 3; not expected) INFO gave up: blog entered FATAL state, too many start retries too quickly
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