Deployment

Postorius support Python 3.5+ and Django 1.11+.

Note

This guide covers deployment options of Postorius.

Nginx with uwsgi

Note

Please refer to nginx and uwsgi documentation for explanation of the shown snippets.

Below is an example uwsgi configuration file:

[uwsgi]

chdir           = /srv/django/mailman
module          = example_project.wsgi
virtualenv      = /srv/django/mailman/env

master          = true
processes       = 4
socket          = /run/uwsgi/mailman.sock
#chmod-socket   = 666

vacuum          = true
plugin          = python2

uid             = http
gid             = http

And a nginx server section to with it:

upstream mailman {
                server unix:///run/uwsgi/mailman.sock;
}

server {
                listen      80;
                # TODO Replace with your domain
                server_name lists.example.com;
                return 301      https://$server_name$request_uri;

}

## Config for server secured with https
server {
        listen   443;

        # TODO Replace with your domain
        server_name lists.example.com;


        ssl                     on;
        # TODO Replace with your crt and key
        ssl_certificate         /etc/nginx/keys/lists.example.com.crt;
        ssl_certificate_key     /etc/nginx/keys/lists.example.com.key;
        ssl_session_timeout     5m;
        ssl_ciphers             'AES128+EECDH:AES128+EDH';
        ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
        ssl_prefer_server_ciphers       on;
        add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubdomains; preload";

        charset     utf-8;

        # max upload size
        client_max_body_size 75M;   # adjust to taste

        location /static {
                        # TODO Adjust to your static location
                        alias /srv/django/mailman/public/static;
        }

        # Finally, send all non-media requests to the Django server.
        location / {
                        uwsgi_pass  mailman;
                        include     /etc/nginx/uwsgi_params; # the uwsgi_params file you installed
        }
}

Apache with mod_wsgi

Note

This guide assumes that you know how to setup a VirtualHost with Apache. If you are using SQLite, the .db file as well as its folder need to be writable by the web server.

These settings need to be added to your Apache VirtualHost:

Alias /static /srv/django/mailman/public/static
<Directory "/srv/django/mailman/public/static">
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Directory>

WSGIScriptAlias / /srv/django/mailman/srv/postorius.wsgi
<Directory "/srv/django/mailman/srv">
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Directory>

The first Alias serves the static files (CSS, JS, Images, etc.). The WSGIScriptAlias serves the Django application. The paths need to be changed depending on which location you have your postorius project in.

Final setup instructions

We’re almost ready. But you need to create translations and collect the static files from Postorius (which resides somewhere on your pythonpath) to be able to serve them from the site directory. All you have to do is to change into the postorius project directory and run:

$ mkdir locale
$ python manage.py compilemessages
$ python manage.py collectstatic

After reloading the webserver Postorius should be running!