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Deploying Django to Ubuntu: A Comprehensive Guide

Introduction

In this comprehensive tutorial, we will guide you through the process of deploying a Django application on Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, or 22.04. For a better understanding, we have divided the process into five distinct parts.

Topics Covered

1. Initial Server Setup
2. Deployment Part I: SSH and Environment Setup
3. Deployment Part II: Gunicorn and Nginx

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Django Dockerfile

Sure, here's an example Dockerfile for building a Django project:

  # Use an official Python runtime as a parent image
  FROM python:3.8-slim-buster

  # Set the working directory to /app
 WORKDIR /app

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Create Space in DigitalOcean and setup necessary keys and access point.

1. Use the following link to create space: https://cloud.digitalocean.com/spaces/new
2. Choose nearest region in the Region section.
3. Check "Enable CDN" option to get fastest delivery of web assests.
4. Now input a unique name relavent to your project in the "Bucket Name" section.
5. Now create the space. This will take a couple of seconds to get the space created.
6. Copy the Origin endpoint (in top right corner of the Space details page) and note it down somewhere else.

Create Access keys for DigitalOcean Space

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Change from current user to root user

$ sudo -s

Now change to postgres user

$ su - postgres

Create a simple backup. (Optional, just for test)

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SoftEther VPN Server Setup

Follow the instructions below to setup OpenVPN and SoftEther Server Manager.

1. Make sure you have a Linux server, which will be used as a VPN server.

2. ssh into the server by the following command:

   $ ssh root@your_server_ip_address