Connecting Django to a web server

We must have a gateway service that manages the static content. We will use Caddy for its simplicity.

Caddy is configured with a flat file named Caddyfile. We must create it and add the following content:

http://hello.localhost {
    root * /usr/src/app/
 
    @notStatic {
      not path /static/* /media/*
    }
 
    reverse_proxy @notStatic django:8000
 
    file_server
}
 
http://webmail.localhost {
    reverse_proxy mailhog:8025
}

With the first line, http://hello.localhost, we indicate the domain that we will use. As we are in a development environment, we will indicate the http protocol instead of https. Next, with root * /usr/src/app/ and file_server, we’re telling Caddy to expose static files (images, CSS files, JavaScript files, and so on) because that’s not Django’...