How To Deploy a Django Application with Apache2 on Ubuntu in AWS EC2 instance?

In this tutorial, you’ll deploy a Django application on Ubuntu EC2 instance running Apache2 step by step.

Prerequisites

• Install apache2

~ sudo apt update

~ sudo apt install apache2

~ sudo service apache2 start

• Apache Error watch

~ watch tail -n 15 /var/log/apache2/error.log 

• Check python version

~ python3 –version

• Install pip

~ sudo apt install python3-pip

~ sudo apt install python3-venv

• Create project directory

~ mkdir demo

• Change the ownership to ubuntu. Example:

~ sudo chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu demo

~ sudo chmod 777 demo

~ sudo chmod 755 /home/<user>

• Add GitHub Repository. If you need generate SSH key for GitHub, you can visit this link.

~ git init

~ git remote add origin repository_link

~ git pull origin main

• Change the ownership of the media directory. Example:

~ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data demo/media

• Create virtual env at demo

~ cd demo

~ python3 -m venv env

~ source env/bin/activate #Activate virtual env

• Install packages

~ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

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Apache Server Configurations

• Make a demo.conf file on /etc/apache2/sites-available and configure following way

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName example.com
    ServerAlias www.example.com
    DocumentRoot /home/ubuntu/demo
    <Directory /home/ubuntu/demo>
        AllowOverride all
        Require all granted
        Options FollowSymlinks
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    Alias /media /home/ubuntu/demo/media
    Alias /static /home/ubuntu/demo/static

    <Directory /home/ubuntu/demo/static>
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    <Directory /home/ubuntu/demo/media>
    Require all granted
    </Directory>

    <Directory /home/ubuntu/demo/demo>
        <Files wsgi.py>
            Require all granted
        </Files>
    </Directory>


    WSGIDaemonProcess demo python-path=/home/ubuntu/demo python-home=/home/ubuntu/demo/env
    WSGIProcessGroup demo
    WSGIScriptAlias / /home/ubuntu/demo/demo/wsgi.py

</VirtualHost>

• Make migrate and collect static

~ source env/bin/activate

~ python3 manage.py makemigrations

~ python3 manage.py migrate

~ python3 manage.py collectstatic

• Change permission and ownership

~ sudo chmod 664 db.sqlite3

~ sudo chown :www-data db.sqlite3

~ sudo chown :www-data demo

~ sudo chown :www-data demo/demo

• Enable apache site configuration file

~ sudo a2ensite demo.conf

~ sudo a2dissite default.conf

• Install wsgi mod in apache

~ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3

~ sudo a2enmod wsgi

~ sudo service apache2 restart

• Apache Server log

~ watch tail -n 15 /var/log/apache2/error.log 

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Done! Now you can browse your application with the domain name.