How to Deploy Django App on Centos server having domain secured With SSL?

Question

I have a Django App which I want to deploy on a Centos Linux server having a global/public IP which is assigned to a domain and is secured with SSL.

The System configuration is as:

centos-release-6-10.el6.centos.12.3.x86_64

Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)

When I run the server using:

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000,

then it is only accessible from the browser by passing a local IP say

http://192.xxx.xx.xxx:8000/django_app/home

But I want to access it from the public/global IP, but it gives an error when I replace the local IP with Global/Public IP or domain assigned to the public IP as:

105.168.296.58 took too long to respond.
Try:

Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
Running Windows Network Diagnostics
ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

When I simply put this public IP in the browser as https://105.168.296.58 then it redirects the browser to the app/website say https://mywebsite.com/home which is running at port 80 on Apache, and shows the assigned domain instead of IP, so IP is working fine.

in settings.py: all hosts are allowed as ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']

Methods tried are:

1. by using django-extensions as:

python manage.py runserver_plus --cert certname 0.0.0.0:8000

2. by using django-sslserver as:

python manage.py runsslserver 0.0.0.0:8000

The app runs from both of these methods only locally at http://192.xxx.xx.xxx:8000/django_app/home, but None of them worked from a Public IP.

Kindly tell, How to deploy or configure this Django App to Run Outside the Local Network?

Answer 1

i would deploy django like this:

1. install uwsgi in your virtualenv

   pip install uwsgi

2. create a uwsgi config file (everything inside <> has to be edited to your needs

    # mysite_uwsgi.ini file
    [uwsgi]
   
    # Django-related settings
    # the base directory (full path)
    chdir           = </path/to/your/project>
    # Django's wsgi file
    module          = <project>.wsgi
    # the virtualenv (full path)
    home            = </path/to/virtualenv>
   
    # process-related settings
    # master
    master          = true
    # maximum number of worker processes
    processes       = 10
    # the socket (use the full path to be safe
    socket          = </path/to/your/project/mysite.sock>
    # ... with appropriate permissions - may be needed
    # chmod-socket    = 664
    # clear environment on exit
    vacuum          = true
   

3. install nginx and create following config

    # mysite_nginx.conf
   
    # the upstream component nginx needs to connect to
    upstream django {
        server unix:///<path/to/your/mysite/mysite.sock>; 
    }
   
    # configuration of the server
    server {
        # the port your site will be served on
        listen      80;
        # the domain name it will serve for
        server_name <example.com;> # substitute your machine's IP address or FQDN
        charset     utf-8;
   
        # max upload size
        client_max_body_size 75M;   # adjust to taste
   
        # Django media
        location /media  {
            alias </path/to/your/mysite/media;>  # your Django project's media files - amend as required
        }
   
        location /static {
            alias </path/to/your/mysite/static>; # your Django project's static files - amend as required
        }
   
        # Finally, send all non-media requests to the Django server.
        location / {
            uwsgi_pass  django;
            include     </path/to/your/mysite/uwsgi_params;> # the uwsgi_params file you installed
        }
   }
   

4. Download and copy uwsgi_params to your directory https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/master/conf/uwsgi_params

5. symlink config from /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

   sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite_nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

6. Start uwsgi and nginx

   uwsgi --ini mysite_uwsgi.ini

   sudo service nginx restart

don't forget collectstatic so that these files can be served.

we added the mysite_uwsgi.ini and uwsgi_params files to our repository