I have a small project using Raspberry Pi 3 device and using Django for my application. I follow this tutorial but sadly it can't be used for 16.04. I'm not using apache because of my device, i want to use runserver because of the limitations of my unit.
Thanks
You shouldn't use manage.py runserver for production servers. You should use something like WSGI or Gunicorn: How To Set Up Django with Postgres, Nginx, and Gunicorn on Ubuntu 14.04
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How can I make my Django project accessible via internet?
When I execute the project in Windows OS by typing with a disabled firewall it works and reachable via the internet.
But in Linux OS it does not. I tried the same actions. Executed it by typing and made sure my firewall is disabled
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
The expected result is that project is accessible via the internet like in windows OS
you must deploy your app in one server. I recommend you pay for one VPS like digitalocean. And dont run you app with runserver. Runserver is only for development. Use one wsgi like gunicorn.
If you not want pay for this service. You can use heroku
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/deploying-python
I recommend use docker. Docker possibilite you development and deploy same envoriment
Django server name which is use to run app locally. As php use apache server to run app locally.
Django comes with its own development server, python manage.py runserver, which you would use to develop locally.
For more production-ready deployments, a popular choice is Nginx backed by uWSGI or Gunicorn.
It uses pure python built-in server
I have tried to start server with Django project like this:
python3.4 manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
and like this:
python3.4 manage.py runserver my_domain.com:8000
and it starts fine but I can't visit my site. Any ideas what I've done wrong?
The command python manage.py runserver is thought for development purposes.
If you have in mind to have a python (django in this case) website running in a remote server, try having a look at uwsgi.
It's an application server that plays really well with nginx.
Then, it could be possible run your site using the wsgi file in your django project:
uwsgi --http :8000 --module mysite.wsgi
In order to configure your django site, follow this documentation.
Also, if you plan to host more than one website, uwsgi has a emperor mode with slightly different configuration, but really worth for your VPS memory.
I am of the PHP background and just have started to learn Django and Python (and loving it). I always used to install WAMP server for PHP development.
Now I dont know how do I configure Django to use PostgreSQL i.e how to make both communicate with each other. I have run some 'hello world' scripts with django. Curretly I have installed Python, django and PostgreSQL. here is the version information
Python : 2.7.2 & 3.2 (i have installed both)
Django : 1.3.1
PostgreSQL : 9.1.2
Apache : 2.2 (..this is from WAMP server)
Os : Ms Windows 7 32-bits (x86)
Since django has builtin development server is it at all necessary to have apache installed and use it instead of that one? If we use the built-in server how we are supposed to configure it for PostgreSQL?.
It is not necessary to have apache installed to develop on django. In fact it is often easier to use the development server because it is single threaded, lightweight, and extremely easy to use. python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8080 to run on localhost port 8080, and your code is easily debuggable.
In django you dont configure your server for a database. You configure your project for a database. All database configurations are kept in the settings.py file located in your main project. Page one of the tutorial explains how to set up a database for your django prject. YOu have to specify, database name, host, port, user and password in your settings.py file.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/#database-setup
I would suggest walking through the django tutorial as it addresses most of the issues in setting up development on a new django project.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/
I recently deployed a Django based project and found this tutorial to be very helpful and concise.
Django virtualenv Apache2 mod_wsgi
And if you have CentOS, then you can install mod_wsgi as mentioned here:
Django Deployment - Setup mod_wsgi on CentOS
Getting Django to run on Apache requires getting Python to interpret that, you can do this with WSGI. follow the tutorial found here:
https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/django_apache_and_mod_wsgi
there are other methods to deploy this, you can find here:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/
A little confused, does python manage.py runserver use the paster web server or is this a django specific server?
It's a custom WSGI server built on BaseHTTPServer and adapted from wsgiref.