How To Install and Configure Django with Postgres, Nginx, and Gunicorn

Introduction

Django is a powerful web framework for Python that allows developers to create complex, database-driven websites with ease. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure Django with Postgres, Nginx, and Gunicorn on a Ubuntu server.

Prerequisites

• A server running Ubuntu 18.04
• A non-root user with sudo privileges

Step 1: Installing Django

The first step in this tutorial is to install Django. We will use pip, the Python package manager, to install Django:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pip
pip3 install Django

Step 2: Installing Postgres

Next, we need to install Postgres, a powerful open-source relational database management system:

sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib

Step 3: Creating a Postgres Database and User

Now that we have Postgres installed, we