Django Carpool

Here you'll find a config used to set up an example deployment environment for a Python WSGI stack, including:

• A Django site deployed with Pip, Virtualenv, and Fabric.
• Apache/mod_wsgi and Gunicorn application servers.
• Nginx load balancers and media servers.
• Memcached.
• PostgreSQL with pgpool

Getting the app running

Install putty, virtualbox, ruby (jruby on 64bit oses) and vagrant.

After installing ruby or jruby and the devkit , open a cmd shell and do a (j)gem install vagrant

Make a dir to put the Vagrantfile. Eg. C:\vagrant\, put the Vagrantfile here, hold shift and right clik the dir and "Open command window here", run:

vagrant up

Connect to 127.0.0.1:4422 using putty with the keyfile C:\Ruby192\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\vagrant-0.7.2\keys\vagrant.ppk, depending on ruby version.

In the terminal window (putty) do:

sudo apt-get install git-core

cd /vagrant/

git clone https://github.com/fivethreeo/django-deployment-workshop.git

cd django-deployment-workshop

sudo bash bootstrap_dev.sh

fab -R develop -p vagrant config setup_all

Open a webbrowser to http://127.0.0.1:4480/admin/, login using user: carpool password: carpool

Further reading

• Ubuntu.
• git (also see the git book).
• Pip.
• Virtualenv.
• Django; see particularly the settings reference.
• Apache; the directive quick reference is especially useful.

• mod_wsgi:

  • Django's mod_wsgi docs.
  • mod_wsgi's Django docs.

• Gunicorn

• PostgreSQL docs, including:

  • Server configuration (postgresql.conf).
  • Client authentication (pg_hba.conf).

• Fabric.
• Nginx, specifically the upstream and proxy modules.
• memcached.
• Django's caching framework.
• pgpool2.