# Deploy Django App

Will show you how to deploy a Django application on Ubuntu server. The server can be run from any hosting provider, if you can access via ssh - you can follow along with these commands.

# Getting project ready

Start by adding the allowed domains in your settings file. Assuming you are deploying to a named domainn.

ALLOWED_HOSTS = [
........
'yourdomain.com',
'www.yourdomain.com',
.........
]

We will deploy using gunicorn, so you need to make sure it is installed inside of your virtual environment

pip install gunicorn

Test Gunicorn is installed correctly:

gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 yourproject.wsgi

Deactivate

deactivate

# Create System and Service File

Start by creating systemd socket file

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.socket

Paste inside the file

[Unit]
Description=gunicorn socket

[Socket]
ListenStream=/run/gunicorn.sock

[Install]
WantedBy=sockets.target

Create a service file for gunicorn

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.service

[Unit]
Description=gunicorn daemon
Requires=gunicorn.socket
After=network.target

[Service]
User=yourusername
Group=www-data
WorkingDirectory=/home/yourusername/path-to-your-projectdir
ExecStart=/home/yourusername/path-to-your-  projectdir/yourprojectenv/bin/gunicorn \
          --access-logfile - \
          --workers 3 \
          --bind unix:/run/gunicorn.sock \
          yourproject.wsgi:application

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Check everything is correct in the file, then run:

sudo systemctl start gunicorn.socket

sudo systemctl enable gunicorn.socket

Check status

sudo systemctl status gunicorn.socket

sudo systemctl status gunicorn

# Configure nginx to serve Django app

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx

Create new server block for your project

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourproject

Inside the file

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name yourdomain.com www.yourdomain.com;

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location /static/ {
        root /home/yourusername/path-to-youprojectdir;
    }

    location / {
        include proxy_params;
        proxy_pass http://unix:/run/gunicorn.sock;
    }
}

Enable the file

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourproject /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

Check configuration

sudo nginx -t

Restart Nginx

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Allow Nginx Firewall

sudo ufw allow 'Nginx Full'

# Secure your website with Certbot

We need to install certbot before we get started, if you already have certbot installed, you can skip this.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt install python3-certbot-nginx

Install the certificate

sudo certbot --nginx -d yourdomain.com -d www.yourdomain.com

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