Is it possible to use Nginx together with Django without an intermediate WSGI server, such as Gunicorn?

Nginx by itself cannot directly run Python code or handle WSGI applications like Django. Therefore, to run Django with Nginx, an intermediate WSGI server (such as Gunicorn, uWSGI) is usually needed, which runs the application and handles requests.

Nginx acts as a reverse proxy, accepting HTTP requests and forwarding them to the WSGI server. Without a WSGI server, Nginx cannot execute Django's Python code.

Exceptions:

• You can use ASGI servers (like Daphne, Uvicorn) for asynchronous Django applications, but then Nginx will still proxy the requests.

Thus, using Nginx with Django without an intermediate server that runs the application is not possible.