Django Deployment How To

django_deployment.md

Deployment 🚀🚀🚀

Deploy on Ubuntu 22.04 with Postgres, Nginx and Gunicorn

1. Create server via AWS EC2 or Digital Ocean Droplet, or other similar service

• AWS https://awstip.com/how-to-deploy-django-application-on-aws-ubuntu-ec2-25a24ca439e2

2. Prepare server with this setup: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-22-04

3. Allow ubuntu user to have sudo privileges

• logged in via ssh
• type sudo visudo
• add username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL to the file
• save and exit

4. Create ssh keys for server add add to git so server can download repo

5. Download repo

6. Create .env file from .env.sample: cp .env.sample .env

7. Follow tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-22-04

8. Check for static files access sudo -u www-data stat /home/ubuntu/djangoboys/static

It it gives the error: stat: cannot statx '/home/ubuntu/djangoboys/static': Permission denied

Then

Add the www-data to the username group:

sudo gpasswd -a www-data username

9. If nginx gives this error: nginx: [emerg] could not build server_names_hash, you should increase server_names_hash_bucket_size: 64 nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed

Then

Edit the nginx.conf and on the http block, add this line:

http{ server_names_hash_bucket_size 64; ... }

10. Also check this tutorial in case of errors: https://pylessons.com/django-deployment

11. Visit your site and verify deployment

Follow Along Video Tutorials ⏯️ ⏯️ ⏯️

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fjpNXK7yqc
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O1H9kr1CsA
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D4mn_rO2cM