Steps to configure a django app on digitalocean.com

digitalocean-deploy-django

deploy django app on digitalocean
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# Packages

    sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev python-virtualenv supervisor nginx

# Create dirs

    mkdir -p /webapps/my-project/{logs,run}
    > /webapps/my-project/logs/gunicorn_supervisor.log

# Virtualenv

    cd /webapps/my-project
    virtualenv .

# Gunicorn

    pip install gunicorn
    > /webapps/my-project/bin/start.sh
    #!/bin/bash
    NAME="my-project"
    DJANGODIR=/webapps/my-project/conf              # Django project directory
    SOCKFILE=/webapps/my-project/run/gunicorn.sock  # we will communicte using this unix socket
    USER=myproject_user                             # the user to run as
    GROUP=webapps                                   # the group to run as
    NUM_WORKERS=3                                   # how many worker processes should Gunicorn spawn
    DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=conf.settings            # which settings file should Django use
    DJANGO_WSGI_MODULE=conf.wsgi                    # WSGI module name

    echo "Starting $NAME as `whoami`"

    # Activate the virtual environment
    cd $DJANGODIR
    source ../bin/activate
    export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=$DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE
    export PYTHONPATH=$DJANGODIR:$PYTHONPATH

    # Start your Django Unicorn
    # Programs meant to be run under supervisor should not daemonize themselves (do not use --daemon)
    exec ../bin/gunicorn ${DJANGO_WSGI_MODULE}:application \
      --name $NAME \
      --workers $NUM_WORKERS \
      --user=$USER --group=$GROUP \
      --bind=unix:$SOCKFILE \
      --log-level=debug \
      --log-file=-

# Supervisor

    > /etc/supervisor/conf.d/my-project.conf
    [program:myproject]
    command = /webapps/my-project/bin/start.sh
    user = carolcycles
    stdout_logfile = /webapps/my-project/logs/gunicorn_supervisor.log
    redirect_stderr = true
    environment=LANG=en_US.UTF-8,LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
    autostart=true
    autorestart=true
    redirect_stderr=true

    sudo supervisorctl reread
    sudo supervisorctl update

# Nginx for static

    edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
    server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;

    > /etc/nginx/sites-available/my-project
    ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/my-project /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/my-project

    upstream myproject_app {
        server unix:/webapps/my-project/run/gunicorn.sock fail_timeout=0;
    }
     
    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name example.com;
        client_max_body_size 4G;
        access_log /webapps/my-project/logs/nginx-access.log;
        error_log /webapps/my-project/logs/nginx-error.log;
        location /static/ {
            alias /webapps/my-project/static/;
        }
        location /media/ {
            alias /webapps/my-project/media/;
        }
     
        location / {
            proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
            proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
            proxy_redirect off;
            if (!-f $request_filename) {
                proxy_pass http://myproject_app;
                break;
            }
        }
     
        # Error pages
        error_page 500 502 503 504 /500.html;
        location = /500.html {
            root /webapps/my-project/static/;
        }
    }

# Configure settings.py

    STATIC_DIR = '/webapps/my-project/static/'
    python manage.py collectstatic