Configuring Django and Nginx on Ubuntu 13.04
My motivation for this tutorial is that trying to follow other tutorials for the installation of Django and Nginx I kept running into hurdles. Even following the exact commands I could not reproduce the results in other tutorials. This tutorial uses a clean Ubuntu 13.04 image from Amazon EC2 and the steps should be exactly reproducible.
1. Setting up the server
If you're familiar with provisioning a new server on Amazon EC2 then Skip to Section 2.
1.1 Key Creation
Firstly we require a public key to be able to provision a server. This is to provid security by means of key-exchange which is more secure than using passwords as they cannot be guessed. To create a new key you can use the amazon ec2 console and download the key or you can run the command:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -f newkey
richard@Locke:~$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -f newkeyGenerating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
At the prompt enter a secure password. This password secures the key locally. When using the key to connect to the server this password is never transmitted. You can have a key without a passphrase if you prefer.
This will create a key pair, a private key stored in newkey and a public key in newkey.pub. To upload the the public key to Amazon browse to the EC2 console and select Key Pairs
from the right-hand menu and then Import
from the button at the top.
Important: Upload your Public Key not your private key.
1.2 Launch Instance
To create the server select Launch Instance.
From the prompt select QuickLaunch Wizard
, then from the list of images select Ubuntu Server 13.04
.
Select your key pair and then scroll down and choose Ubuntu Server 13.04
. This tutorial is likely to fail when trying to follow it from Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS because of library dependencies.[1]