gunicorn and Django project - django

Question

I just followed instructions from Digital Ocean. After:
sudo gunicorn --bind 0.0.0.0:8000 nameofmyproject.wsgi:application
bind Gunicorn my site is not available.I tried to change port from 8000 to 80 (i type mysite.com:8000 and is not working...), and then site is reachable, but without any static files like css and images. Don't know why this happens.
sudo ss -naptu state listening | grep :80
Output is:
tcp 0 128 *:8000 *:* users:(("gunicorn",pid=18461,fd=5),("gunicorn",pid=18455,fd=5))
What can I do? It's my first deploy so I would be very grateful for really simple instructions...

Answer 1

When you bind to 8000, the site will be available on port 8000, e.g. http://server_domain_or_IP:8000 (just like it was when you tried manage.py runserver earlier in the tutorial.
then site is reachable, but without any static files like css and images
The tutorial explains that gunicorn is not handling static files. That will be done by nginx later. You are seeing the expected behaviour, so you can carry on with the tutorial.
Next, the tutorial changes gunicorn to use a socket file instead of port 8000, then finally it configures Nginx to proxy pass to gunicorn using the socket file. At this point you will see your site, including the static files.

Answer 2

manage.py runserver
It's only for development, if you want to run it on production, you have to use something like nginx and gunicorn
/etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.service
[Unit]
Description=gunicorn daemon
After=network.target
[Service]
User=vbaddict
Group=vbaddict
WorkingDirectory=/...../
ExecStart=/...../bin/gunicorn --bind=127.0.0.1 --timeout 120 --workers 1 --bind unix:/.../application.sock project.wsgi:application
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
/etc/nginx/conf.d/site.conf
server {
listen 80;
server_name carius.vbaddict.net;
access_log /var/log/.../.log;
location / {
include proxy_params;
proxy_pass http://unix:/home/..../application.sock;
proxy_connect_timeout 600;
proxy_send_timeout 600;
proxy_read_timeout 600;
send_timeout 600;
}
}
It's a small example
And it you need a static file, you just need to run:
python manage.py collectstatic