akushuapp.com Backend Deploy Guide

Development setup

Install required system packages:

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo apt-get install python3-dev python3-setuptools
sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

Create www directory where project sites and environment dir

mkdir /var/www && mkdir /var/envs && mkdir /var/envs/bin

Install virtualenvwrapper

sudo pip3 install virtualenvwrapper
sudo pip3 install --upgrade virtualenv

Add these to your bashrc virutualenvwrapper work

export WORKON_HOME=/var/envs
export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3
export PROJECT_HOME=/var/www
export VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_HOOK_DIR=/var/envs/bin
source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Create virtualenv

cd /var/envs && mkvirtualenv --python=/usr/bin/python3 musician

Install requirements for a project.

cd /var/www/musician && pip install -r requirements.txt

sudo chown :www-data /var/www/musician

Database creation

sudo mysql -u root -p
mysql > DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS database_name;
mysql > CREATE DATABASE database_name CHARACTER SET utf8;
mysql > CREATE USER 'db_user_name'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql > GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name.* TO 'db_user_name'@'localhost';