Chapter 12. Deploying Django
This chapter covers the last essential step of building a Django application: deploying it to a production server.
If you've been following along with our ongoing examples, you probably used the runserver, which makes things very easy (you don't have to worry about Web server setup). But runserver is intended only for development on your local machine, not for exposure on the public Web. To deploy your Django application, you'll need to hook it into an industrial-strength Web server such as Apache. In this chapter, we'll show you how to do that, but first we'll give you a checklist of things to do in your codebase before you go live.
Preparing Your Codebase for Production
Fortunately, the runserver approximates a "real" ...
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