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| ryan | technology | ## Previous Efforts When I first heard of Django I thought it looks like a really interesting, and Pythonic way, to get a website up and running. I spent a whole weekend putting together a site locally and then, using Digital Ocean, decided to push my idea up onto a live site. One problem that I ran into, which EVERY new Django Developer will run into was static files. I couldn’t get static files to work. No matter what I did, they were just … missing. I proceeded to spend the next few weekends trying to figure out why, but alas, I was not very good (or patient) with reading documentation and gave up. Fast forward a few years, and while taking the 100 Days of Code on the Web Python course from Talk Python to Me I was able to follow along on a part of the course that pushed up a Django App to Heroku. I wrote about that effort [here](https://pybit.es/my-first-django-app.html). Needless to say, I was pretty pumped. But, I was wondering, is there a way I can actually get a Django site to work on a non-Heroku (PaaS) type infrastructure. ## Inspiration While going through my Twitter timeline I cam across a retweet from TestDrive.io of [Matt Segal](https://mattsegal.dev/simple-django- deployment.html). He has an **amazing** walk through of deploying a Django site on the hard level (i.e. using Windows). It’s a mix of Blog posts and YouTube Videos and I highly recommend it. There is some NSFW language, BUT if you can get past that (and I can) it’s a great resource. This series is meant to be a written record of what I did to implement these recommendations and suggestions, and then to push myself a bit further to expand the complexity of the app. ## Articles A list of the Articles will go here. For now, here’s a rough outline of the planned posts: * [Setting up the Server (on Digital Ocean)](/setting-up-the-server-on-digital-ocean.html) * [Getting your Domain to point to Digital Ocean Your Server](/getting-your-domain-to-point-to-digital-ocean-your-server.html) * [Preparing the code for deployment to Digital Ocean](/preparing-the-code-for-deployment-to-digital-ocean.html) * [Automating the deployment](/automating-the-deployment.html) * Enhancements The ‘Enhancements’ will be multiple follow up posts (hopefully) as I catalog improvements make to the site. My currently planned enhancements are: * Creating the App * [Migrating from SQLite to Postgres](/using-postgresql.html) * Integrating Git * [Having Multiple Sites on a single Server](/setting-up-multiple-django-sites-on-a-digital-ocean-server.html) * Adding Caching * Integrating S3 on AWS to store Static Files and Media Files * Migrate to Docker / Kubernetes | 2021-01-24 | deploying-a-django-site-to-digital-ocean-a-series | ## Previous Efforts When I first heard of Django I thought it looks like a really interesting, and Pythonic way, to get a website up and running. I spent a whole weekend putting together a site locally and then, using Digital Ocean, decided to push my idea up onto a live … | Deploying a Django Site to Digital Ocean - A Series | https://www.ryancheley.com/2021/01/24/deploying-a-django-site-to-digital-ocean-a-series/ |