Commerce - Django

Experimental - Web development using Django framework

Note

Exercise:
Model, ModelForm, ModelAdmin, ListView, Pagination, CSS Flex
SQLlite, Nginx

1. Create virtual environment

   python3 -m venv django-env

2. Activate virtual environment

   source django-env/bin/activate

3. Install requirement

   pip install -r requirement.txt

4. Create Django Project

   django-admin startproject <PROJECT_NAME>

5. Run Django application (webserver)

   python manage.py runserver (default port 8000)
   python manage.py runserver 8001 (run at port 8001)

6. Create Django apps

   stop webserver (CTR-C)
   python manage.py startapp
   Configure into INSTALL_APP in setting.py (in Django admin Project folder)
   Create urls.py in folder
   Configure path into URLPATTERN in urls.py (in Django admin project folder)

7. Create default Session table.

   python manage.py migrate (in Django admin project root folder)

Nginx - Configure Nginx as a web server to host image files from an auction platform

1. Install Nginx

   brew install nginx

2a. start nginx manually > nginx

2b. start nginx automatically ( install as service) > brew services start nginx

3. Verify nginx instalation, browse http://localhost

4. Configuration file path "/usr/local/etc/nginx/" Default webroot path "/usr/local/var/www/"

5a. Stop nginx manually > nginx -s stop

5b. Stop nginx (if installed as service) > brew services stop nginx

6. Restart nginx

   brew services restart nginx or restart nginx

Configure nginx as file server

1. Create a local nginx local configuration file

   mkdir /Users/dummyuser/myfolder/nginx.conf

server {
listen 8181;
server_name localhost;

# Location for favicon
location = /favicon.ico { 
   access_log off; 
   log_not_found off; 
}


# Serve media files directly
location /media/ {
   alias /Users/dummyuser/files/commerce/media/;
   expires 30d;
}

# Proxy other request to Gunicorn server
# URL for website that consme images files 
location / {
   proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;   
   proxy_set_header Host $host;
   proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
   proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
   proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
}


}

3. Include your local nginx.conf to /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

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http {
    
    #include to local nginx.conf path
    include /Users/dummyuser/myfolder//nginx.conf;
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