webproject

This is a basic web app to illustrate deployment on Microsoft IIS, Apache + mod_wsgi, or nginx

Table of Contents

• Microsoft IIS

• Apache + mod_wsgi

• nginx + Waitress

Microsoft IIS

• Watch on YouTube: Deploy Django on Windows using Microsoft IIS

Steps

1. Install IIS on your VM or machine, and enable CGI

   • How to Install IIS on Windows 8 or Windows 10

   • CGI

2. Copy webproject to C:/inetpub/wwwroot/webproject

3. Install Python 3.7 in C:/Python37, and install the necessary libraries django, openpyxl, wfastcgi; see webproject/install_requirements.bat

4. Navigate to C:/, right-click on Python37, and edit Properties. Under Security, add IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool. DefaultAppPool is the default app pool.

5. Enable wfastcgi

   • Open a CMD terminal as Administrator, and run the command wfastcgi-enable.

   • Copy the Python path, and replace the scriptProcessor="<to be filled in>" in web-config-template with the Python path returned by wfastcgi-enable.

6. Edit the remaining settings in web-config-template then save it as web.config in the C:/inetpub/wwwroot/ directory. It should NOT sit inside webproject/. Other settings can be modified if webproject does NOT sit at C:/inetpub/wwwroot/

   • Edit project PYTHONPATH (path to your project)

   • Edit WSGI_HANDLER (located in your wsgi.py)

   • Edit DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE (your settings.py module)

7. Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. Under connections select the server, then in the center pane under Management select Configuration Editor. Under Section select system.webServer/handlers. Under Section select Unlock Section. This is required because the C:/inetpub/wwwroot/web.config creates a route handler for our project.

8. Add Virtual Directory. In order to enable serving static files map a static alias to the static directory, C:/inetpub/wwwroot/webproject/static/, this directory includes the second web.config file, collect static files by running python manage.py collectstatic in the CMD terminal as Administrator

9. Refresh the server and navigate to localhost

Apache and mod_wsgi

• Watch on YouTube: Deploy Django with Apache and mod_wsgi on Windows Server 2019

References:

• How to use Django with Apache and mod_wsgi

For Apache 2.4 and mod_wsgi use the httpd.conf.template

Steps

1. Download and install Apache 2.4 in C:/Apache24. Use Apache Lounge, or any flavor you prefer.

   • After copying files over to C:/Apache24, open a CMD terminal as Administrator. Navigate to C:/Apache24 and run bin\httpd.exe -k install to install the Apache service. You can then navigate to localhost to view the test page.

   • You can start the service by running httpd.exe -k start

   • You can stop the services by running httpd.exe -k stop and restart it by httpd.exe -k restart

2. Install Microsoft C++ Build Tools. You will need this before you run pip install mod_wsgi.

3. Install Python 3.7 in C:/Python37 (you don't need to create a virtual environment)

4. Install django, openpyxl, modwsgi (see install_requirements.bat)

5. On a CMD terminal, run mod_wsgi-express module-config, then copy the contents and edit webproject/httpd.conf.template. Edit paths to Python and your Django project.

6. On a CMD terminal, run C:/Apache24/bin/httpd.exe -k start, open a web browser and navigate to localhost (make sure ALLOWED_HOSTS has been updated).

References:

• Configure Python web apps for IIS

• WFastCGI

For Microsoft IIS please use the webproject/web-config-template and the webproject/static/web.config files. Update the web-config-template as needed. It will be used to create a web.config that sits on C:/inetpub/wwwroot/web.config; The directory will contain all project files: C:/inetpub/wwwroot/web.config along with C:/inetpub/wwwroot/webproject.

nginx and Waitress

• Watch on YouTube: Deploy Django with NGINX and Waitress on Windows Server 2019

Steps

1. Download and copy nginx to C:/.

2. Install Python 3.7 in C:/Python37 and install

   • django, openpyxl and waitress

3. Edit ALLOWED_HOSTS in settings.py. Waitress will be running the Django server at http://localhost:8080.

4. Collect static files by running python manage.py collectstatic

5. Edit nginx_waitress/webproeject_nginx.conf

   • Edit the server_name

   • Edit the path to /static (and /media if needed)

   • Edit proxy_pass to match the server running from Waitress (i.e. runserver.py). This will usually be localhost or your IP address

6. Create two directories inside of C:/nginx/

   • Create sites-enabled and sites-available

   • Copy webproject_nginx.conf to the two directories

7. Edit C:/nginx/conf/nginx.conf

   • Add include <path to your sites-enabled/webproject_nginx.conf>;

   • Change port 80 to a non-essential port like 10. We will need to utilize 80 for our Django project

8. Open a terminal at C:/nginx/ and run nginx.exe -t to check files, and if everything is successful run nginx.exe to start the server

9. Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost