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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

Create A Digital Ocean Droplet

Use this link and get $10 free. Just select the $5 plan unless this a production app.

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# Feel free to change this path of course (and keys_zone value as well, but also change the usage of it below).
proxy_cache_path /var/www/cache/resized levels=1:2 keys_zone=resizedimages:10m max_size=1G;

# Gzip was on in another conf file of mine...You may need to uncomment the next line.
#gzip on;
gzip_disable msie6;
gzip_static on;
gzip_comp_level 4;
gzip_proxied any;
# Again, be careful that you aren't overwriting some other setting from another config's http {} section.