add nginx /myip tuning hint to the admin docs

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Thomas Waldmann 2014-11-17 19:38:42 +01:00
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@ -371,3 +371,19 @@ troubles with them, try this)::
Of course, you'll also need to restart the django/wsgi processes, so the new
code gets loaded.
Tuning
------
If you get a lot of requests for /myip, the Python code handling this URL will
be rather busy. If you use nginx, you may optionally tune this and respond to
these requests directly from nginx without invoking any python code::
location /myip {
add_header Content-Type text/plain;
return 200 $remote_addr;
}
You need to add this to all server blocks (IP v4, v6, both) that are dealing
with requests for the service.