May 4, 2024, 12:30 p.m. | Ayodeji Adesola

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Have you ever wanted to deploy your Django web application on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with SSL encryption for secure communication? In this tutorial, we’ll walk through each step, from setting up prerequisites to configuring Nginx and Gunicorn, and finally securing your site with Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates.


Prerequisites:


Before we dive in, let’s ensure we have all the necessary tools and configurations in place.


First, we’ll need to create a requirements.txt file containing all the Python packages …

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