Phased out nginx in favor of running django under daphne with asgi.

Adjusted the docker image in favor of this, & fixed urls.py which was
missing the static request responder.

src/frontend/asgi.py

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+"""
+ASGI config for asgi project.
+
+It exposes the ASGI callable as a module-level variable named ``application``.
+
+For more information on this file, see
+https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/howto/deployment/asgi/
+"""
+
+import os
+
+from django.core.asgi import get_asgi_application
+
+os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'frontend.settings')
+
+application = get_asgi_application()

src/frontend/settings.py

@@ -21,38 +21,36 @@ CUR_DIR = Path.cwd()
 PRG_DIR = CUR_DIR.parts[0:-1]
 PRG_DIR = Path(*PRG_DIR)
 
-
 CONFIG = Config(PRG_DIR)
 # Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
 BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
 
-
 # Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
 # See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/howto/deployment/checklist/
 
 # SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
 SECRET_KEY = CONFIG.SECRET
 # SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
-DEBUG = TEMPLATE_DEBUG = CONFIG.debug_build_mode
+
+BUILD_MODE = CONFIG.build_mode
+if BUILD_MODE == 'debug':
+    DEBUG = TEMPLATE_DEBUG = True
+else:
+    DEBUG = TEMPLATE_DEBUG = False
 if DEBUG is True:
     print("DEBUG build mode is ON")
     from pudb.remote import set_trace
+else:
+    print("Production Mode Set")
 ALLOWED_HOSTS = CONFIG.allowed_hosts
 
-
 # Application definition
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = [
-    "django.contrib.admin",
-    "django.contrib.auth",
-    "django.contrib.contenttypes",
-    "django.contrib.sessions",
-    "django.contrib.messages",
-    "django.contrib.staticfiles",
-    "interface",
-    "interface.templatetags",
-    "debug_toolbar",
-    "widget_tweaks"
+    "django.contrib.admin", "django.contrib.auth",
+    "django.contrib.contenttypes", "django.contrib.sessions",
+    "django.contrib.messages", "django.contrib.staticfiles", "interface",
+    "interface.templatetags", "debug_toolbar", "widget_tweaks"
 ]
 AUTH_USER_MODEL = "interface.User"
 MIDDLEWARE = [
@@ -90,9 +88,9 @@ TEMPLATES = [
     },
 ]
 
-WSGI_APPLICATION = "frontend.wsgi.application"
-
+# WSGI_APPLICATION = "frontend.wsgi.application"
 
+WSGI_APPLICATION = 'asgi.wsgi.application'
 # Database
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/ref/settings/#databases
 DATABASES = {
@@ -115,14 +113,23 @@ DATABASES = {
 
 AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
     {
-        "NAME": "django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator",
+        "NAME":
+        "django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator",
+    },
+    {
+        "NAME":
+        "django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator",
+    },
+    {
+        "NAME":
+        "django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator",
+    },
+    {
+        "NAME":
+        "django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator",
     },
-    {"NAME": "django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator",},
-    {"NAME": "django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator",},
-    {"NAME": "django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator",},
 ]
 
-
 # Internationalization
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/i18n/
 
@@ -136,7 +143,6 @@ USE_L10N = True
 
 USE_TZ = True
 
-
 # Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
 # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/howto/static-files/
 LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = 'home'

src/frontend/urls.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.shortcuts import HttpResponse
 from django.urls import include, path, re_path
+from django.conf.urls.static import static
 from interface import views
 
 urlpatterns = [
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ urlpatterns = [
         auth_views.PasswordResetCompleteView.as_view(),
         name='password_reset_complete',
     ),
-]
+] + static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
 if settings.DEBUG:
     import debug_toolbar