I have followed all of the instructions and was able to successfully a Django, Gunicorn Enginx and PostgreSQL server on Ubuntu 18.04. All of the DNS is working great and from what I can tell, the setup was successful. I now have 3 questions … Do I set up FTP to publish to the site? If not what means do I use to publish? The Django virtual environment (per the tutorial) lives in the home directory of the user I made. Is this the correct location for the folder? Do I need to publish static files to the /static folder that was created? How do I manage this?

Hello, Instead of using FTP, it’s recommended to use SSH/SCP/SFTP for secure and efficient file transfer. You can use tools like FileZilla (with SFTP) or rsync for this purpose. Here’s a guide on using FileZilla and SCP to transfer files to your Droplet . Storing the Django virtual environment in the user’s home directory is acceptable, but you can also put it in a project-specific directory if you prefer. Just ensure it’s in a secure and accessible location. You can learn about serving Django applications in this tutorial. Yes, you need to publish the static files to the /static folder for proper handling by Nginx. To manage this, use Django’s collectstatic command. This command will gather all the static files and put them in the designated folder: python manage.py collectstatic For further information, refer to the Django documentation about managing static files . Hope that this helps!

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Do I use FTP to publish to my Django / Gunicorn / Enginx server - if not how do I publish?

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Posted on June 20, 2019

Ubuntu 18.04

Django

By Leland Raven

I have followed all of the instructions and was able to successfully a Django, Gunicorn Enginx and PostgreSQL server on Ubuntu 18.04. All of the DNS is working great and from what I can tell, the setup was successful. I now have 3 questions …

Do I set up FTP to publish to the site? If not what means do I use to publish?
The Django virtual environment (per the tutorial) lives in the home directory of the user I made. Is this the correct location for the folder?
Do I need to publish static files to the /static folder that was created? How do I manage this?

Do I use FTP to publish to my Django / Gunicorn / Enginx server - if not how do I publish?

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Posted on June 20, 2019

Ubuntu 18.04

Django

By Leland Raven

Do I set up FTP to publish to the site? If not what means do I use to publish?
The Django virtual environment (per the tutorial) lives in the home directory of the user I made. Is this the correct location for the folder?
Do I need to publish static files to the /static folder that was created? How do I manage this?

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