Test django app locally on Ubuntu

This tutorial looks at how to make a django app publically avaliable on the web.

If you are just testing, you can use a ssh proxy to forward your requests for localhost:5000 (for example) to the server, so you can access stuff inside the server’s localhost. This is good for private testing. To do so, just run the following on any *NIX system, remembering to change the port number and server address for your app:

ssh -L 8000:localhost:8000 root@23.23.23.23

For anyone stumbling upon this, the best way forward would be using this tutorial here;

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu

In this guide, you will install and configure some components on Ubuntu 24.04 (or any other supported Ubuntu version) to support and serve Django applications. You will be setting up a PostgreSQL database instead of using the default SQLite database. You’ll configure the Gunicorn application server to interface with your applications. You will then set up Nginx to reverse proxy to Gunicorn, giving you access to its security and performance features to serve your apps.