Django Config Steps

config.md

Steps to Make you Django Project Online (from Scratch)

* Note You need to have your Django project ready and start a server in any hosting website (aws, azure, ..) and login through SSH

• Step 1 :- Become Root in your server - sudo su
• Step 2 :- cd /
• Step 3 :- apt update && apt upgrade -ya
• Step 4 :- mkdir -p /<Project Name>/site/logs /<Project Name>/site/public /<Project Name>/django /<Project Name>/auth -> create folders
• Step 5 :- apt install python3-pip -y
• Step 6 :- pip3 install virtualenv
• Step 7 :- cd /<Project Name>; virtualenv venv -p /usr/bin/python3
• Step 8 :- source venv/bin/activate
• Step 9 :- cd django;git clone <Project Repo Link>
• Step 10 :- pip install -r <Project Name>/requirement.txt
• Step 11 :- Add Server IP to Setting.py Allowed Host
• Step 12 :- Check where setting till now is OK? Go in Project Folder python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
  • Note : Add 8000, 80, 443 in Security Group Inbound in case of AWS

Apache2 Section

• Step 13 :- apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 -y
• Step 14 :- cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
• Step 15 :- Edit 000-default.conf with appendix-1 (blow) -> apache2 config file for Django
• Step 16 :- service apach2 restart

Done

Appendix - 1

<VirtualHost *:80>

        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /var/www/html


        ErrorLog /<Project Name>/site/logs/error.log
        CustomLog /<Project Name>/site/logs/access.log combined

        <Directory /<Project Name>/django/secure-cloud-storage/<Project Name>>
                <Files wsgi.py>
                        Require all granted
                </Files>
        </Directory>

        WSGIDaemonProcess <Project Name> python-path=/<Project Name>/django/secure-cloud-storage python-home=/<Project Name>/venv
        WSGIProcessGroup <Project Name>
        WSGIScriptAlias / /<Project Name>/django/secure-cloud-storage/<Project Name>/wsgi.py

</VirtualHost>```