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Django is a powerful web framework that can help you get your Python application or website off the ground. Django includes a simplified development server for testing your code locally, but for anything even slightly production related, a more secure and powerful web server is required.
In this tutorial, you will install and configure some components on Ubuntu to support and serve Django applications. You will be setting up a PostgreSQL database instead of using the default SQLite database. You’ll configure the Gunicorn application server to interface with your applications. You will then set up Nginx to reverse proxy to Gunicorn, giving you access to its security and performance features to serve your apps.
For a comprehensive comparison of database options, see our guide on SQLite vs MySQL vs PostgreSQL: A Comparison of Relational Database Management Systems.
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You will be installing Django within a virtual environment. Installing Django into an environment specific to your project will allow your projects and their requirements to be handled separately. For more detailed information on working with PostgreSQL in Django, see our comprehensive guide on How to Use PostgreSQL with Your Django Application on Ubuntu 22.04.
Once you have your database and application up and running, you will install and configure the Gunicorn application server. This will serve as an interface to our application, translating client requests from HTTP to Python calls that our application can process. You will then set up Nginx in front of Gunicorn to take advantage of its high performance connection handling mechanisms and its easy-to-implement security features.
Let’s get started.
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I have trouble loading my static files following this instruction. Am I the only one?
is this suitable for production ?
Great article! Lead me down the esoteric domain of unix sockets though, but I loved every bit.
Excellent article!
Is it secure to have the user in ‘/etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.service’ the same as the system user with sudo privileges? Is it better to run gunicorn with a user that has fewer permissions? If so, could you provide some guidance on how to do so?
Is it secure to have the user in ‘/etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.service’ the same as the system user with sudo privileges? Is it better to run gunicorn with a user that has fewer permissions? If so, could you provide some guidance on how to do so?
I am getting 403 permission errors for the static folder. I can’t figure it out. From what I read, i have change the static folder to var/www/html/static. I have chowned the folder to the nginx user www-data. But none of it is working. This article does not mention any of this. Anyone know what I can do?
Solution to: Nginx not serving static files
Just want to leave this here because a lot of people run into this problem. This guide doesn’t seem to include the fact that nginx requires permission to the static folder and the parent folders. Through some tinkering this is what worked.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /home/myprojectuser/myproject/static/
sudo chmod -R 755 /home/myprojectuser/myproject/static/
sudo chmod 755 /home/myprojectuser/
sudo chmod 755 /home/myprojectuser/myproject/
I run into this problem every time I deploy a new server using this great guide hope this helps you.
I just wanted to express my appreciation to the author for this excellent article and to all the people who contributed solutions to the issues. After many years as a hobbyist teaching myself Django, SQL, CSS, javascript and more, I’ve finally got a working website on the internet.
Great Article. I am using this to setup my django application. Here is my first correction. There was error (django.db.migrations.exceptions.MigrationSchemaMissing: Unable to create the django_migrations table (permission denied for schema public LINE 1: CREATE TABLE “django_migrations” (“id” bigint NOT NULL PRIMA…)in running $python manage.py migrate (due to change postgress public schema rules), so i did following to resolve it.
$sudo -u postgres psql\connect myprojectGRANT ALL ON SCHEMA public TO myprojectuser;Full documentation for every DigitalOcean product.
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