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Django Deployment to Ubuntu 18.04

In this guide I will go through all the steps to create a VPS, secure it and deploy a Django application. This is a summarized document from this digital ocean doc

Any commands with "$" at the beginning run on your local machine and any "#" run when logged into the server

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from functools import partial


def placeholderify(form=None, fields=None):
    """
    A decorator for Django forms that sets a `placeholder` attribute to all
    fields. Each field's label is used as a placeholder.
    
    Use it like so:
    

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from .models import Post, Category
from .decorators import action_form


class PostCategoryForm(forms.Form):
    title = 'Update category for the selected posts'
    category = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Category.objects.all())


@admin.register(Post)

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import random
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

min_year=1900
max_year=datetime.now().year

start = datetime(min_year, 1, 1, 00, 00, 00)
years = max_year - min_year+1
end = start + timedelta(days=365 * years)

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{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block content %}
<form method="post">{% csrf_token %}
    {{ forms.subscription }}
    <input type="submit" value="Subscribe">
</form>
<form method="post">{% csrf_token %}
    {{ forms.contact }}
    <input type="submit" value="Send">

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from django.db import models

class Person(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    groups = models.ManyToManyField('Group', through='GroupMember', related_name='people')
    
    class Meta:
        ordering = ['name']
    
    def __str__(self):

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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Install a package from your local pip download cache without having to touch
the 'net at all.

You'll need to be using a pip download cache; that is, you'll need the
following in your ~/.pip/pip.cfg:

    [install]