Deploy Dango blog to Vultr

Worth experiencing the long way

1. ​ Change settings…Separate development environment settings and product environment settings

Create “local_settings.py” in your project folder where settings.py sits.

Delete “DEBUG” “SECRETE_KEY” and “ALLOWED HOSTS” from settings.py

Write “DEBUG = True” “SECRET_KEY” on local_settings.py

2. VULTR registration…

• Add SSH key,
• Firewall settings,
• Deploy new instance,

3. SSH login…

1. Add user, Update Ubuntu (sudo apt update/ sudo apt upgrade),
2. Install (sudo apt install nginx python3-pip python3-venv),
3. Make a folder (mkdir src),
4. Remote-SSH: Connect to Host – Add new SSH host

Reference: https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-access-your-vultr-vps#SSH__Linux_

4. GitHub + Visual Studio Code

1. Copy CODE,
2. cd src: git clone <git CODE url>,
3. Open copied folder on VSC,
4. Virtual env (python3 -m venv myvenv),
5. Activate env (source myvenv/bin/activate)

Visit Github: https://github.com/

5. Deploy…

1. Update (pip3 install –upgrade pip setuptools),
2. Install requirements (pip3 install -r requirements.txt): local and myvenv,
3. Make a directory for static (sudo mkdir /usr/share/nginx/html/static),
4. Make a directory for media (sudo mkdir /usr/share/nginx/html/media),
5. Make .env file for environment variable (write: SECRET_KEY=xxxxx/ ALLOWED_HOSTS=127.0.0.1),
6. Migrate (python3 manage.py migrate),
7. Collectstatic (sudo python3 manage.py collectstatic),
8. Change settings of nginx (sudo nano /etc/niginx/sites-available/default)…Rewrite server (vultr IP),
9. Check the settings (sudo nginx -t),
10. Add vultr IP to .env
11. Runserver: (python3 manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000)
12. Enter vultr IP
13. Stop server
14. Check gunicorn (gunicorn –bind 127.0.0.1:8000 project.wsgi:application)
15. —> Enter IP on browser
16. Register system ctl cmd for start/stop/restart server
17. —> (sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/project.service)
18. —>WorkingDirectory=/home/yamaco/src/project
19. —>ExecStart=/home/yamaco/src/project/myvenv/bin/gunicorn –bind 127.0.0.1:8000 project.wsgi:application
20. Start server (sudo systemctl start project)
21. —>Check status (sudo systemctl status project)
22. —>Stop server (sudo systemctl stop project)
23. —>Restart server (sudo systemctl restart project)

6. Domain acquisition… 

1.      —>Name server settings (ns1.vultr.com/ ns2.vultr.com)
2.      —>Vultr: Add domain to DNS
3.      —>Add domain to .env
4.      —>Restart server (sudo systemctl restart project)

Reference: https://www.vultr.com/docs/setup-your-own-dns-server-on-debian-ubuntu

7. HTTPS conversion

1.      —>Stop server (sudo systemctl stop nginx)
2.      —>Get a certificate (sudo apt-get install letsencrypt)
3.      —>Get a certificate (sudo letsencrypt certonly –standalone -d yamaco.work
4.      —>Change settings of nginx (sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default)
5.      —>Check status (sudo nginx -t)
6.      —>Start nginx (sudo systemctl start nginx)
7.      —>Restart gunicorn (sudo systemctl restart project)

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