Deploy Django on Ubuntu 16.4 LTS

Preface

This note aims to simplify the route to deploy DJANGO2.X<2 on Ubuntu-LTS server. It takes about 4 minutes.

Before you start your Ubuntu server, you ' d better the Change your SSH ports to another one, and never use ' 22 '. Because hackers would try many times to access your server. You can switch your SSH port by following scripts:

cd /etc/init.d/sshlssudo# a configuration file like this# in vim mode, type ‘i‘ to insert# annotate the default port setting as ‘# port 22‘# add a new line after ‘port 22‘ as ‘port 23442‘, just an example.# after you‘ve done above thingssudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart

Install instruction

• Install & Configure MySql Server

  • Install

    sudo apt updatesudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

  • Configure

    service mysql statusservice#restart/stop

  • Initialize Databases

    mysql -u root -pmysql: create database Django_Database_Name default charset utf8 collate utf8_general_ci;# Set default charset as UTF-8 to prevent error in future

• Install Django
  • Install dependencies:virtualenv (Optional)

    # install virtualenvsudo apt install virtualenvvirtualenv# e.g. Fuckercd Fuckersource# activate virtual-environment

    • Deactivate virtual-environment

      # in virtual-environment root dirdeactivate

  • Install Dependencies:python3 + PIP3

    sudo apt-get install python3sudo apt-get install python3-pip

  • Install Dependencies:uwsgi + Django

    pip3# --user option to prevent Permission Denied Error in future

• Install Dependency:nginx

  sudo apt-get install nginxsystemctl# check nginx statussudo# test nginxcurl 127.0.0.1

Debug your Site/app

• Upload your Django files via SFTP, with the same port as ssh

• Do following jobs:

  source ./bin/activatepython3  manage.py makemigrationspython3  manage.py migratepython3  manage.py createsuperuser# set username, pwd, email  python3  manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000# then some error might occur< /span>  

• Trouble shooting
  • Model Fields Error
    • Check your field setting
    • Check your MySQL charset
  • MYSQL Connection Error
    • Re-configure your MySQL settings in settings.py
    • Checkout your MySQL service status
  • Not allowed IP or so
    • Add your server public IP address to the settings.py in "Allow" like List
  • Makemigrations or migrate do not work well

    • Use following scripts to clear your specific app ' s migrations cache

      python3 manage.py makemigrations --empty YOUR-APP-NAMEpython3 manage.py makemigrationspython3 manage.py migrate        

Configuration

• Django Daemon Service Configuration

• Serve Static files If DEBUG ' s been set False

• Nginx Configuration

Deploy Django on Ubuntu 16.4 LTS