setup domain for django web server

Question

Say I have the domain mydomain.com and I want www.mydomain.com to display my Django site

I have looked at the django docs but the answers they provide are confusing

what DNS records do I need to set to allow this? and are there any changes that have to be made to the config

note: I'm using ipv4 and am running ubuntu

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 13 '20 at 12:00

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You should make an A/AAAA record for the www subdomain that points to your server IP

Depending on the web-server you are using (for example Apache or Nginx) you can change the config to send traffic from the www subdomain to the Django server.

answered Apr 13 '20 at 12:00

ToTheMax

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so how do I get it to use a port? because it runs on port 8000 and if i just use the IP address it doesn't work – mmoomocow Apr 13 '20 at 12:18
That's where a web-server is needed. It can forward traffic (proxy) with a specific domain to a specific port of the machine. For example nginx: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24861311/forwarding-port-80-to-8080-using-nginx – ToTheMax Apr 13 '20 at 12:22

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 13 '20 at 16:21

It sounds like you are serving your project with the development server which runs on port 8000. You first need to run it with apache2 or nginx on port 80 (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/), then set up your dns record to point to the ip address of your server

setup domain for django web server

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