Deploy Django project with uWSGI and Nginx

Follow the instructions of this tutorial: http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorials/Django_and_nginx.html

In brief:

uWSGI is a WSGI implementation. We set up uWSGI so that it creates a Unix socket, and serves responses to the web server(Nginx) via the WSGI protocol. The complete stack of components looks like this:

the web client(your browser) <-> the web server(Nginx) <-> the socket <-> uwsgi <-> Django Install **uWSGI**, **Nginx**, **Pip** and **virtualenv** (I run the commands below as root):

apt-get update

Install and start nginx:

apt-get install nginx
/etc/init.d/nginx start

Install pip and virtualenv:

apt-get install python-pip
pip install virtualenv
cd chevy_forum
source venv/bin/activate   # enter virtual environment

Install uWSGI:

pip install uwsgi

Configure nginx for our site:

Copy the uwsgi_params file available in nginx directory to chevy_forum/example/ folder

Create the file below in nginx sites-enabled/ folder, and remove default file

# chevy_forum_nginx.conf

# the upstream component nginx needs to connect to
upstream django {
    server unix:///root/chevy_forum/example/chevy_forum.sock; # for a file socket
    # server 127.0.0.1:8001; # for a web port socket (we'll use this first)
}

# configuration of the server
server {
    # the port your site will be served on
    listen      80;
    # the domain name it will serve for
    server_name 121.40.154.189; # substitute your machine's IP address or FQDN
    charset     utf-8;

    # max upload size
    client_max_body_size 75M;   # adjust to taste

    # Django media
    location /media  {
        alias /root/chevy_forum/example/media;  # your Django project's media files - amend as required
    }

    location /static {
        alias /root/chevy_forum/example/static; # your Django project's static files - amend as required
    }

    # Finally, send all non-media requests to the Django server.
    location / {
        uwsgi_pass  django;
        include     /root/chevy_forum/example/uwsgi_params; # the uwsgi_params file you installed
    }
}

Then restart nginx: /etc/init.d/nginx restart

###Configuring uWSGI to run with a .ini file: Create file chevy_uwsgi.ini below in chevy_forum/example/ folder:

# chevy_uwsgi.ini file
[uwsgi]

# Django-related settings
# the base directory (full path)
chdir           = /root/chevy_forum/example
# Django's wsgi file
module          = project.wsgi
# the virtualenv (full path)

# process-related settings
# master
master          = true
pidfile         = /tmp/chevy_forum-master.pid
# maximum number of worker processes
processes       = 10
# the socket (use the full path to be safe
socket          = /root/chevy_forum/example/chevy_forum.sock
# ... with appropriate permissions - may be needed
chmod-socket    = 666
# clear environment on exit
vacuum          = true
daemonize       = /var/log/uwsgi/chevy_forum.log

And run uswgi using this file: uwsgi --ini chevy_uwsgi.ini # the --ini option is used to specify a file

You may need to fix some file/folder permission issues.