Setting up Django on ubuntu

Here are the steps to setup Django on Amazon EC2 server:

The image is ubuntu-maverick-10.10-amd64-server-20101225

Choose the ebs one, otherwise you will lose everything after you shutdown your server

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install apache2
3. wget http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.3/tarball/
4. mv index.html Django-1.3.tar.gz
5. tar xzvf Django-1.3.tar.gz
6. cd Django-1.3
7. sudo python setup.py install
8. sudo  apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
9. create "/home/ubuntu/mysite/django-server.wsgi"
import os, sys
sys.path.append('/home/ubuntu/')
sys.path.append('/home/ubuntu/mysite')
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'
import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

10. sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
11. cd  /etc/apache2/sites-available
12. sudo cp  default mysite
13. edit "mysite"
Listen 8000
<VirtualHost *:8000>
        WSGIScriptAlias / /home/ubuntu/mysite/django-server.wsgi
        WSGIDaemonProcess server1piece user=www-data group=www-data processes=1 threads=10
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        DocumentRoot /home/ubuntu/
        Alias /static/admin/ /home/ubuntu/Django-1.3/django/contrib/admin/media/
14. a2ensite mysite
15. sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
16. sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
17. cd ~
18. django-admin startproject mysite
19. cd ~/mysite
20. django-admin startapp myapp 
21. python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000