We use Opus <https://github.com/bmbouter/opus> to do our django deployments. It creates a secure version of the setup described in this thread (with apache not nginx), and even takes care of deploying the databases also (if you don't mind postgres).
my 2 cents, Brian On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Graham Dumpleton < graham.dumple...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Nov 23, 8:18 pm, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk> wrote: > > On Nov 22, 9:42 pm, Todd Wilson <twil...@csufresno.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I teach a course in which I have students developing unrelated Django > > > projects on servers of their own choice. As we near the end of the > > > semester, I would like to set up a single server where I can host all > > > of these student projects together. I will obviously create a new > > > user, as well as a new mysql account and database, on this server for > > > each project, and ask the student teams to upload their project files > > > into the home directories of these accounts. But what else will I > > > have to do to make this work? > > > > > I suppose I'll have to install the union of all the python libraries > > > used by the individual projects, but each project will have its own > > > settings and "local" URL structure, and I'm not sure how all of this > > > should be coordinated, or what changes I'll have to ask the teams to > > > make to their own projects to allow this coordination. (The server is > > > Apache/mod_wsgi.) > > > > > Any recommendations? > > > > You might want to take inspiration from the way Webfaction, one of the > > main Django hosters, do it. They have a central Apache for each > > server, but they then also have separate Apache instances for each > > Django user. The main Apache proxies to the individual user instances. > > Then the users can configure and restart their own Apaches as > > necessary, without disturbing everyone else on the server. > > Additionally, the central instance takes care of serving static > > assets. > > They actually use nginx as front end these days and not Apache. > > Graham > > > As regards libraries, I would encourage you to get your students to > > use virtualenv. They can then create a requirements.txt file, which > > encapsulates all the external libraries they need, and you can install > > everything for each user with a single command. > > -- > > DR. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- Brian Bouterse ITng Services -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
