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Securing Django + Nginx With TLS

Feb. 8, 2020, 5:25 p.m. by Avery Uslaner

Encrypted good; insecure bad.

Installing Certbot

We first need to install certbot from Let's Encrypt since that will do most of the hard work for us.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install certbot python-certbot-nginx

Now that certbot it installed, we can grab a certificate. We'll have daphne consume it so we don't need certbot to mess with our nginx file.

sudo certbot certonly --nginx

The tool …

Configuring MySQL for Django

Feb. 7, 2020, 9:42 a.m. by Avery Uslaner

How to setup MySQL for Django in Ubuntu 18.04

Installing System Packages

The first step is obviously to install MySQL itself, which is easiest to do using your systems package repository. In my case, I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 on a Digital Ocean droplet.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev

Securing the Database

Now we can work on some initial setup of the new database server. Conveniently, MySQL provides a tool that walks you thru the basics of securing the installation. The …

Setting Up Django with Nginx + Daphne on Ubuntu 18.04

Feb. 6, 2020, 4:52 p.m. by Avery Uslaner

Serving a Django web application with Daphne and Nginx

My Environment

I'll be deploying a Django 3.0 web application on a Digital Ocean droplet running Ubuntu 18.04. The web app will be served by Daphne and Nginx.

Installing Things

Python

I'll be running Django using Python 3.8.1 which isn't currently available as a package on Ubuntu so I'll be installing it from source. The files are available on python.org.

You could use wget to download the files straight from the remote machine, but …