Django on Amazon EC2 using Ubuntu

Django EC2 Ubuntu

ALSO SEE THIS: http://eddychan.com/post/18484749431/minimum-viable-ops-deploying-your-first-django-app-to 
AND THIS: http://bitnami.com/stack/django

These are my notes on how to quickly setup a python, virtualenv (use virtualenv-burrito FTW), and django.  
 
Setup an EC-2 instance: 
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Use the quick launch wizard:

1. Name the instance
2. Select an existing SSH key (or if you need to, make a new one)
3. Select OS (Ubuntu Server 12.10 64 bit)
CONTINUE -- then EDIT DETAILS
4. Under Security Settings select Django
5. Save Details
6. Launch


SSH Connection to the instance:
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1. Open Terminal Window
2. cd .ssh   (or cd ~/.ssh if you are not in the home dir)
3. Connect:

username is not ec2user@address but ***ubuntu*** . . . ubuntu@address
.ssh $ ssh -i yourkeyfile.pem ubuntu@ec2-youraddress.compute-1.amazonaws.com
 


Setup the Django Python Environment:
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0. sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
1. $sudo apt-get install yum    
2. $python -V  [in order to confirm you have the right version of Python]
3. $sudo apt-get install python-setuptools (this gets easy_install)
4. $sudo easy_install pip  [*** note, it is underline not hyphen!]
5. $sudo apt-get install git
6. now install virtualenv burrito with this command:
curl -s https://raw.github.com/brainsik/virtualenv-burrito/master/virtualenv-burrito.sh | $SHELL
7. per instruction, $ source /home/ubuntu/.venvburrito/startup.sh
8. $mkvirtualenv <name> 
9. pip install django
 
If you wish you can django-admin startproject <projname>, launch a server [use 0.0.0.0!, as in $python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000] and then launch a browser http://ec2-youraddress.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8000/ to test the install.  If you have opened up HTTP access to that port it should work.  If not, open a second ssh window, start a telnet session and try to telnet to port 8000: $ telnet localhost 8000, then type "GET /" and ***hit enter a couple of times*** [important to hit enter twice]. If you can't connect then runserver isn't working properly, if you can connect and you get HTML from the GET then the problem is between you and the server (you probably don't have the ports open in the security profile you have associated with the EC2 instance).
 
If you have a project ready to go, cd into the directory that should house it (e.g. \sites) and then: 
$ sudo git clone https://github.com/gituser/theproject.git
 
IF Django_local_flavor needs to be installed:
pip install https://github.com/django/django-localflavor-us/zipball/master

 
Tags: Setup Install Django Amazon AWS Ubuntu Server Python Virtualenv