I am having issue with django web application deployment on ubuntu VPS. The issue is that the server do not give any response even on 0.0.0.0:8000

Question

While deploying the Django website everything goes right but when I run the command python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 then the server starts successfully but then if I try the IP:8000 on the browser, it shows the site can't be reached and even no computation executes on the server terminal of Django. I have executed

sudo ufw allow 8000

but still, the error is the same.

I have tried apache and nginx but got the same output for both.

I am following this guide

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-18-04

also tried:

• https://www.codewithharry.com/blogpost/django-deploy-nginx-gunicorn

I am using VPS having 1 core, 0.5 GB RAM, Data transfer rate:400 Mbps, I am wondering if Django's requirements for running the application are not met.

Answer 1

I had the same issue after going through this tutorial. It turned out that ufw simply wasn't running by default. Check by ufw status, start with sudo ufw enable