/django-setup

Setup Django application with Nginx and uWSGI on a Ubuntu server

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Setup Django, Nginx and uWSGI on a Ubuntu server - Two User setup

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Login to UBUNTU user

ssh ubuntu@ec2-54-88-129-151.compute-1.amazonaws.com

CREATE apps USER

sudo adduser apps
sudo su apps #Login to apps user and add ssh keys
mkdir ~/.ssh
echo -e "<SSH Key from your local machine>" >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
exit

REQUIRED PACKAGES/DEPENDENCIES

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade
sudo apt-get -y install python-dev python-pip nginx vim uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-python
sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper

DATABASE

SQLITE
sudo apt-get -y install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
MYSQL
wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql-apt-config_0.8.3-1_all.deb (Choose the latest one from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/apt/)
sudo dpkg -i mysql-apt-config_0.8.3-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
POSTGRESQL
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ `lsb_release -cs`-pgdg main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'
wget -q https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib

SETUP

NGNIX

sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/parsel_tongue_nginx.conf

Copy the parsel_tongue_nginx.conf file

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/parsel_tongue_nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/parsel_tongue_nginx.conf
sudo service nginx configtest
sudo service nginx restart

APPLICATION DEPENDENCIES

sudo chown apps:www-data -R /var/log/uwsgi
sudo vim /etc/uwsgi/apps-available/parsel_tongue_uwsgi.ini

Copy the parsel_tongue_uwsgi.ini file

sudo ln -s /etc/uwsgi/apps-available/parsel_tongue_uwsgi.ini /etc/uwsgi/apps-enabled/parsel_tongue_uwsgi.ini

PERMISSIONS FOR UWSGI RESTART

sudo visudo (Add the following line)
apps ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/service uwsgi status, /usr/sbin/service uwsgi start, /usr/sbin/service uwsgi stop, /usr/sbin/service uwsgi restart
ctrl + o
ENTER
ctrl + x

exit

Login to APPS user

ssh apps@ec2-54-88-129-151.compute-1.amazonaws.com

APPLICATION DEPENDENCIES

echo "export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
Django Application Setup
mkvirtualenv parsel_tongue
pip install django
django-admin startproject parsel_tongue
cd parsel_tongue
echo -e 'STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static/")' >> parsel_tongue/settings.py
python manage.py collectstatic
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser
deactivate
Restart Services
sudo service uwsgi start

exit