Ronnie Beltran ronbeltran

Full blog post can be found here: http://pnommensen.com/2014/09/07/high-performance-ghost-configuration-with-nginx/

Ghost is an open source platform for blogging founded by John O'Nolan and Hannah Wolfe. It's a node.js application and therefore works great in conjunction with nginx. This guide will will help you create a high performance nginx virtual host configuration for Ghost.

"Don't use #nodejs for static content" - @trevnorris. If #nginx isn't sitting in front of your node server, you're probably doing it wrong.
— Bryan Hughes (@nebrius) August 30, 2014

The node.js application runs on a port on your server

Django documentation says to use:

WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/mysite.com/mysite/wsgi.py
WSGIPythonPath /path/to/mysite.com

<Directory /path/to/mysite.com/mysite>
<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted

Guide on how to create and set up your Django project with webpack, npm and ReactJS :)

Hopefully this will answer "How do I setup or start a Django project?" I was trying to set up my own website, and there was a lot to read, learn and digest! Therefore, I put this together which is a collection of all the guides/blog posts/articles that I found the most useful. At the end of this, you will have your barebones Django app configured and ready to start building :)

NOTE: This guide was built using Django 1.9.5, NodeJS 4+ with NPM 3+

1. Setting up your dev environment

Diagnosing Redis errors on the client side

Customers periodically ask "Why am I getting errors when talking to Redis". The answer is complicated - it could be a client or server side problem. In this article, I am going to talk about client side issues. For server side issues, see here

Clients can see connectivity issues or timeouts for several reason, here are some of the common ones I see:

	upstream myapp {
	server 127.0.0.1:8081;
	}

	limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=login:10m rate=1r/s;

	server {
	listen 443 ssl spdy;
	server_name _;

	#!/bin/bash

	NAME="hello_app" # Name of the application
	DJANGODIR=/webapps/hello_django/hello # Django project directory
	SOCKFILE=/webapps/hello_django/run/gunicorn.sock # we will communicte using this unix socket
	USER=hello # 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=hello.settings # which settings file should Django use
	DJANGO_WSGI_MODULE=hello.wsgi # WSGI module name

	# This specifies the deployment process on AWS ElasticBeanstalk for a Django app using npm and Postgres.
	#
	# The target environment should have access to a Postgres Database through environment variables.
	# The environment can be setup using `eb create --database.engine=postgres`
	# The necessary environment variables to access the database will be automatically defined on the
	# instances of that environment.
	#
	# In addition, the target environment should define environment variables (django secret key ...).
	# They can be manually defined using the AWS ElasticBeanstalk interface on the web.
	# They can also be specified when creating the environment from command line, for example:

	from django.contrib import admin
	from django.contrib.flatpages.models import FlatPage

	# Note: we are renaming the original Admin and Form as we import them!
	from django.contrib.flatpages.admin import FlatPageAdmin as FlatPageAdminOld
	from django.contrib.flatpages.admin import FlatpageForm as FlatpageFormOld

	from django import forms
	from ckeditor.widgets import CKEditorWidget

	sudo yum install gcc
	sudo yum install zlib-devel
	sudo yum install openssl-devel
	sudo yum install bzip2-devel
	sudo yum install readline-devel

	wget https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.1/Python-3.4.1.tgz
	tar -xvf Python-3.4.1.tgz
	cd Python-3.4.1/

	First install pip for Python2. Download the get-pip.py file from https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
	$ cd <download location>
	$ sudo -H python ./get-pip.py

	Installing pip also installs Python3
	To run Python3
	$ python3

	Install pip3 by just executing the same file as in the step above, but this time using Python3
	$ sudo -H python3 ./get-pip.py

Ronnie Beltran ronbeltran

Guide on how to create and set up your Django project with webpack, npm and ReactJS :)

1. Setting up your dev environment

Diagnosing Redis errors on the client side

Memory pressure