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Build a Development Server Virtual Machine for Django with Virtualenv, Nginx, uWSGI and CentOS

In the beginning I used to do a lot of server setup. Every project would require that I do some sort of setup, then do it again for production. As projects became more complex the differences between what I was developing on and what I would eventually host my projects on became greater. So much so that I would end up spending an incredible amount of time duplicating much of the effort I would make getting my development environment up and running.

To that end I decided to make things simpler. Keep my environments close to each other as possible so that I could spend much more time developing cool functionality. To that end I started building I moved development to virtual machines and now if I need a clean slate to start from, I just clone my base VM and start from a point where everything works the way its supposed to. › Continue reading