I am partial to debian / ubuntu, so I use those rather than Amazon's default AMIs (see http://alestic.com/ ). Here are a few links that I have found particularly useful in the past, for various aspects of the deployment process...
* http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2009/05/notes-using-pip-and-virtualenv-django/ * http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2010/10/how-install-pil-ubuntu/ * http://brandonkonkle.com/blog/2010/jun/25/provisioning-new-ubuntu-server-django/ Hope that helps, --Stuart On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Jeff Heard <jefferson.r.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://kencochrane.net/blog/2011/06/django-gunicorn-nginx-supervisord-fabric-centos55/ > > I would go there. It's not Amazon EC2 specific, but Amazon's distribution > by default is a Centos-based one, so everything should be in the same place. > Plus, he very helpfully gives you code you can use to get everything > running quickly. The hardest thing is getting nginx running within the main > initlevel, but even that is not hard, just tedious. > > This does not, however, tell you how to setup S3 storage to be Django's file > backend. You'll have to look somewhere else for that > > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Stuart Laughlin <stu...@bistrotech.net> > wrote: >> >> >> On Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:09:13 AM UTC-6, Javier Guerra wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Stuart Laughlin <stu...@bistrotech.net> >>> wrote: >>> > # author admits he is a non-sysadmin noob >>> >>> ad-hominem >> >> False. I pointed out what the author clearly stipulates. >> >> "I’m a sys admin NOOB. I am also teaching myself to code. This is my first >> time setting up this stack so there are probably going to be some >> bugs/security issues I conveniently side stepped just to get it to work." >> >> "This is obviously not secure enough for a ‘production’ environment." >> >> If that's what you want to model your deployment after, be my guest. I >> hardly think it's fallacious of me to suggest someone do otherwise. >> >> >> > # he uses apache instead of... well... anything else >>> >>> well-tuned apache and mod_wsgi is on the same league as the cool boys. >>> (i still prefer nginx, and i don't think this is a good example of >>> apache tuning, but nothing bad about it) >> >> I don't care a whit about what "the cool boys" are doing. What I care >> about is a production deployment that works efficiently and reliably and >> that is diagnosable when something doesn't work. Apache fails those >> criteria; nginx and lighttpd pass (in my opinion and the opinion of many >> other developers who have used these technologies for non-trivial web >> applications in production environments). >> >>> >>> > Bonus reason: >>> >>> > # he uses mysql instead of postgres >>> >>> again, might not be the bestest choice but nowhere near a bad one. >> >> That's why I listed it as a bonus reason. Better than mssql and sqlite for >> a production deployment anyway, eh? >> >> >> --Stuart >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/ByBrEdUj8HUJ. >> >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
