[Baypiggies] Any Django Guru's?

[Barry Morrison]

Some background and a high-level overview perhaps to shed light on what I'm
working with.

Ubuntu 12.04 Server 32-bit
Nginx 1.1.19-1
uWSGI 1.0.3+dfsg-1

Django==1.4
PIL==1.1.7
argparse==1.2.1
distribute==0.6.24
wsgiref==0.1.2


root = /usr/share/nginx/www/hellodjango/  | root:root
venv = /usr/share/nginx/www/hellodjango/venv | root:root
db = /usr/share/nginx/www/hellodjango/db | www-data:www-data
project = /usr/share/nginx/www/hellodjango/hellodjango | root:root
app(s) = /usr/share/nginx/www/hellodjango/hellodjango/$app | root:root
socket = /usr/share/nginx/www/run | www-data:www-data

The above works. I can serve a Django site just fine. Though I'm certain it
is not the best way to deploy it.

I'm looking for do's, don't's, best practices, lessons learned, etc. etc.
Figured I'd reach out to the local Python community to see if I'd have any
luck.

I will of course continue researching the (insert word of choice here) out
of this until I'm confident I have the answers I need and am comfortable
with this being public.

Thanks again for your time.  Much appreciated!



On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Daniel Nowak <kellankade at gmail.com> wrote:

> In my experience there are way to many ways to deploy django. Here are
> what I think are some best practices.
>
> First decide on your web server. It will make some of your deployment
> decisions for you. If you like apache than you will most likely be
> using mod_wsgi. If you like nginx like me them mod_wsgi is not an
> option.
>
> Second don't put your django code in your webroot.
>
> 3. Don't give your webserver or your wsgi app write access to your
> django app. On ubuntu apache runs as the user www-data. Our django
> apps perme
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 30, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Barry Morrison <bdmorrison at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Django newbie here.
> >
> > Will soon need to deploy a production Django site.  Looking for someone
> who has been there, done that a few times to pick your brain regarding best
> practices, security, etc. etc.
> >
> > Also, anyone have a preference for managing images/thumbnails in Django?
> >
> > Thanks for your time!
> >
> > Much appreciated,
> > Barry
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