Creating a New Amazon EC2 instance

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Activating/Creating Virtual Environment

• virtualenv venvforfinlit -p python3
• source venforfinlit/bin/activate

Installing dependencies

• sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-dev libpq-dev postgresql postgresql-contrib nginx
• pip install -r requirements.txt

Setting up RDS PostgreSQL instance

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Adding Security Group in RDS instance to enable connection from EC2

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Grant permissions to user finlit

• ALTER ROLE finlit SET client_encoding TO 'utf8';
• alter role finlit set timezone to 'Asia/Calcutta';
• GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE finlit_db TO finlit;

Configure Django settings.py

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': 'finlit_db',
        'USER': 'finlit',
        'PASSWORD': 'finlit123',
        'HOST': 'finlit-db.cba220xdqqwl.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com',
        'PORT': '5432',
    }
}

Configure redis, celery, celery-beat and memcached