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This might be a very dumb question, so please bear with me (there's also no code included either). Recently, I switched from PHP to Python and fell in love with Django. Locally, everything works well.
However, how are these files accessed when on a real server?
Is the manage.py runserver supposed to be used in a server environment?
Do I need to use mod_python ?
Coming from PHP, one would simply use Apache or Nginx but how does the deployment work with Python/Django?

This is all very confusing to me, admittedly. Any help is more than welcome.

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  • Many people choose nginx and gunicorn for live serving. It uses the same wsgi.py file that was created with your project. There is a section on the django site discussing deployment: docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/howto/deployment Commented Mar 12, 2016 at 20:17

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manage.py runserver is only used to speed your development process, it shouldn't be run on your server. It's similar to the newly introduced php's built-in server php -S host:port.

Since you're coming from PHP you can use apache with mod_wsgi in order to serve your django application, there are a lot of tutorials online on how to configure it properly. You might want to read what wsgi is and why it's important.

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You say mod_wsgi and @joel says nginx - what is better now?
as a start go with mod_wsgi. nginx would require you to learn yet another service in order to serve your application and I don't recommend that unless you really want to. request->mod_wsgi->app vs request->nginx->gunicorn/uwsgi/other->app.
Thanks for your help!

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