Tech Stack: Django, Wagtail, Jinja Template

Deploy Django(+Channels + Celery + Django REST Framework) project on Ubuntu 20.04 with NGINX

1. Install asdf (version management)

• sudo apt update https://asdf-vm.com/#/core-manage-asdf
• Run git clone https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf.git ~/.asdf --branch v0.8.0
• Add the below command into the ~/.bashrc

• . $HOME/.asdf/asdf.sh
• . $HOME/.asdf/completions/asdf.bash

• Restart the bash
• Run asdf reshim

2. install python plugin into 'asdf'

• Run asdf plugin add python
• Run asdf install python <version> e.g. asdf install python 3.7.6

If python plugin doesn't install properly, check this url https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/wiki/Common-build-problems

• Check if python 3.7.6 is installed - python --version

3. Download the project from the github and Run it as development server

• git clone <git_url>
• Navigate into the project dir.
• Create Virtual Environment and activate the virtualenv python -m venv venv source venv/bin/activate
• Install the dependencies from 'requirements.txt' pip install -r requirements.txt
• Migrate the database and run the project to see if the dependencies are installed successfully. python manage.py migrate python manage.py runserver

4. Install guicorn and run the project by using gunicorn

• Run pip install gunicorn
• Run `sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.service)
• Write the below code into the gunicorn.service file

  [Unit]
     Description=gunicorn daemon
     After=network.target
  
  [Service]
     User=ubuntu
     Group=www-data
     WorkingDirectory=/home/ubuntu/<project_dir>
     ExecStart=/home/ubuntu/<project_dir>/venv/bin/gunicorn --access-logfile - --workers 3 --bind unix:/home/ubuntu/<project_dir>/gunicorn.sock <project_name>.wsgi:application
  
  [Install]
     WantedBy=multi-user.target
  
  

• sudo systemctl daemon-reload
• sudo systemctl start gunicorn.service
• sudo systemctl enable gunicorn.service

Check if the gunicorn.sock file exists in the project directory

7. NGINX configuration

• sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available
• Add the following

  server {
      listen 80;
      server_name ;
  
      location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
      location /static/ {
          root /home/ubuntu;
      }
  
      location / {
          include proxy_params;
          proxy_pass http:https://unix:/home/ubuntu/<project_dir>/gunicorn.sock;
      }
  }
  

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