python

Objective

Install and configure Ubuntu 18.04 to host the Django framework.

Distributions

Ubuntu 18.04

Requirements

A working install of Ubuntu 18.04 with root privileges

Difficulty

Medium

Conventions

• # – requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command
• $ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user

Introduction

If you’re looking to build and host web applications with Python, Django is the most popular choice. Since Python is so tightly integrated into the Linux, it’s not too hard to get a Django server set up on Ubuntu.

There isn’t one set way to host Django projects, but a stack consisting of PostgreSQL, Nginx, Gunicorn, and Django is pretty much the standard.

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