How to Install Django with PostgreSQL and Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04 | Linux Today

How to Install Django with PostgreSQL and Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04

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Muhammad Arul
Nov 3, 2016

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the Django web framework and configure it to use a PostgreSQL database for development. We will run Nginx as a reverse proxy for Django web framework for speed and security reasons. Django will run under the python WSGI HTTP server ‘Gunicorn’, we will manage and control ‘Gunicorn’ with ‘Supervisor’ as the process control system.

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Muhammad Arul

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