in this post, we will see how to use nginx with gunicorn to serve django applications in production. Django is a very powerful web framework and ships with a server which is able to facilitate development. This development server is not scalable and is not suited for production. Hence we need to configure gunicorn to get better scalability and nginx can be used as a reverse proxy and as a web server to serve static files. Let's get started Step 1 - Installing python and nginx Let's update the server's package index using the command below: sudo apt update Copy sudo apt install python3-pip python3-dev nginx Copy This will install python, pip and nginx server Step 2 - Creating a python virtual environment sudo pip3 install virtualenv Copy This will install a virtual environment package in python. Let's create a project directory to host our Django application and create a virtual environment inside th...