django web app make live on windows using docker

Wednesday, 28 August 2024

Will be a great way to save on cloud server costs or bootstrap your startup or experiment and learn! Some things to keep in mind: Your IP address can changer, or your local windows machine IP address ...

Will be a great way to save on cloud server costs or bootstrap your startup or experiment and learn!

Some things to keep in mind:

  • Your IP address can changer, or your local windows machine IP address can change, so you will have to update the router settings whenever this happens
  • Use the IP address of your local machine in your database settings

Requirements

  • Windows 10 or 11
  • Docker Desktop
  • Django
  • Python
  • router login

Add a docker file

FROM python:latest

ENV Debug=False

ADD mysitedjango/requirements.txt /app/requirements.txt

RUN set -ex \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y libpq-dev build-essential \
    && apt-get install -y python3-dev libffi-dev\
    && python3 -m venv /env \
    && /env/bin/pip3 install --upgrade pip \
    && /env/bin/pip3 install --no-cache-dir -r /app/requirements.txt \
    && apt-get autoremove -y \
    && apt-get clean \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
    && runDeps="$(scanelf --needed --nobanner --recursive /env \
    | awk '{ gsub(/,/, "\nso:", $2); print "so:" $2 }' \
    | sort -u \
    | xargs -r apt info --installed \
    | sort -u)" \
    && apt-get install -y $runDeps \
    && apt-get remove -y $runDeps

ADD mysitedjango /app

WORKDIR /app

ENV VIRTUAL_ENV /env
ENV PATH /env/bin:$PATH

EXPOSE 80

CMD ["gunicorn", "--bind", ":80", "--workers", "3", "mysiteDjango.wsgi:application"]

Docker command to make app live on port 80

docker build -t mysitedjango:v3 . && docker run -d --restart=always -p 80:80 mysitedjango:v3

Make changes in your router settings

  • For this you need your own IP on your local network
  • And your machine IP address
  • Change port forwarding settings in your router settings to forward the port 80 to your machine IP address