Django, Nginx and Gunicorn on AWS

Sorry for the brevity, this is mostly for myself.

Example project

  • Name: Partake
  • Type: Django 1.8 project
  • Url: partake.clamor.la
  • Root directory: /home/ubuntu/partake_web
  • Virtualenv name: partake_web
  • Django project name: partake_web

/home/ubuntu/.bashrc

# From http://agiliq.com/blog/2014/08/deploying-a-django-app-on-amazon-ec2-instance/
export WORKON_HOME=/home/ubuntu/.virtualenvs
. /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
  • this is included at the end of the .bashrc file

/home/ubuntu/partake_web/start_gunicorn.sh

#!/bin/bash
APPNAME=partake_web
APPDIR=/home/ubuntu/$APPNAME/

LOGFILE=$APPDIR'gunicorn.log'
ERRORFILE=$APPFIR'gunicorn-error.log'

NUM_WORKERS=3
USER=ubuntu
GROUP=ubuntu
ADDRESS=127.0.0.1:8000

cd $APPDIR

. /home/ubuntu/.bashrc
. /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
. /home/ubuntu/.virtualenvs/partake_web/bin/activate
#workon $APPNAME
. .env

exec gunicorn $APPNAME.wsgi:application \
-w $NUM_WORKERS --bind=$ADDRESS \
--user=$USER --group=$GROUP \
--log-level=debug \
--log-file=$LOGFILE 2>>$LOGFILE  1>>$ERRORFILE &

/etc/init/partake_web_start.conf

description "Start partake_web"
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [06]
respawn
respawn limit 10 5
exec /home/ubuntu/partake_web/start_gunicorn.sh

/etc/nginx/sites-available/partake_web

server {
        listen 80;
    server_name partake.clamor.la;

        access_log off;

        location /static/ {
            alias /home/ubuntu/partake_web/partake_web/_static/;
        }

        location / {
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
                proxy_set_header HOST $server_name;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                add_header P3P 'CP="ALL DSP COR PSAa PSDa OUR NOR ONL UNI COM NAV"';
        }
    } - symlinked to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/partake_web

/home/ubuntu/partake_web/partake_web/settings/prod.py

from .base import *

DEBUG = False

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['partake.clamor.la']

TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG

LOGGING['loggers']['partake_web']['level'] = 'INFO'
LOGGING['loggers']['syslog'] = {
    'level': 'INFO',
    'class': 'logging.handlers.SysLogHandler',
    'formatter': 'normal',
}

Other requirements

  • running ` sudo ln -s /lib/init/upstart-job /etc/init.d/partake_web` ?

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