Setup Django, Apache2, Python Tools, and mod_wsgi on Debian Linux Systems.
Step 1. Install Python Tools, Git, Apache2, and Mod_WSGI on your Debian Linux System
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install python-pip python-virtualenv python-setuptools python-dev build-essential
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3
sudo apt-get build-dep python-imaging
Step 2. Start Virtualenv and install Python3
sudo pip install virtualenv
cd /var/www
mkdir venv && cd venv
virtualenv -p python3 .
source bin/activate
python --version
Step 3. Clone github repo
git clone https://github.com/zingpython/feb_webapp.git
Step 4.
Install all libriaries from requirements.txt
cd feb_webapp
pip install -r requirements.txt
Step 5. You need the python pillow
pip install pillow
Step 6. Start Django, migrate db and create super user
cd project
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py createsuperuser
Step 7. Setup Static & Media Root directories. Make sure you are in /var/www/venv/your_folder_from_github/project/
mkdir static
mkdir staticfiles
mkdir media
Step 8. Open 000-default.conf to change Apache2 configuration
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
Step 9. Change 000-default.conf configuration
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
Alias /static /var/www/venv/web_app_may_8/blog_project/static
<Directory /var/www/venv/web_app_may_8/blog_project/static>
Require all granted
</Directory>
Alias /media /var/www/venv/web_app_may_8/blog_project/media
<Directory /var/www/venv/web_app_may_8/blog_project/media>
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/venv/web_app_may_8/blog_project/blog_project>
<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>
WSGIDaemonProcess cfehome python-path=/var/www/venv/web_app_may_8/blog_project/:/var/www/venv/lib/python3.4/site-packages
WSGIProcessGroup cfehome
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/venv/web_app_may_8/blog_project/blog_project/wsgi.py
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Step 10. Add User Permissions (to modify sqlite3 Database). sudo chown is a command to change the ownership of a file/folder at a time to a specified user. CHOWN stands for CHange file OWNer. sudo chmod 755 filename command - you allow everyone to read and execute the file, and the file owner is allowed to write to the file as well. sudo chmod 777 means making the file readable, writable and executable by everyone.
sudo adduser $USER www-data
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/venv/web_app_may_8/blog_project
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/venv/web_app_may_8/blog_project/db.sqlite3
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/venv/web_app_may_8/blog_project
sudo chmod 777 /var/www/venv/web_app_may_8/blog_project/media/records/
Step 11. Colect static files, collects all static files to media, collectstatic and static folders.
python manage.py collectstatic
Step 12. Restart Apache server, do it everytime after changes been made to the site.
service apache2 restart
Before deployment, Do not forget to change settings.py ALLOWED_HOSTS = [] should hold ip address, domain name, star means all hosts are allowed.
DEBUG = True
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = '/var/www/venv/web_app_may_8/blog_project/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = [
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '/var/www/venv/web_app_may_8/blog_project/staticfiles/')
]
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '/var/www/venv/web_app_may_8/blog_project/media/')