Help with moving a development project to production

Hello all,

         I have been developing a django project and app on a Ubuntu system.  My production system is Centos 6 based ( I think, not Centos 7).  

First off, what should I commit to the repo?  I setup a virtualenv using virtualenvwrapper.  This included a bin directory, include directory and lib directory - 

do I need these in the repo?  Or should they be created on the production server using virtualenv?

 

What if the production environment didn't have a virtualenv?  I guess that is somewhat of a hypothetical question.  

If during development, I created various migrations and even added data to the database.  I am using Postgresql for both

development and production.  If I exported the database, with statements to create all the tables and then populate them with

data and then I import this to the database server used for production, does this create a problem?  I was told to commit

the migrations and then run/make them on the production server.  Is that only necessary if I did not export

everything and then import it all?  Or should I avoid importing the database with structure and data,

instead just running the migrations?

If I were moving from one server to another (both production servers ) I wouldn't want to lose my data.  It seems

like I would lose it all if I ran all the migrations.

Lastly, I heard that django likes to be in the top level folder for a domain - this was in a shared python hosting 

environment that had a one click installer from the control panel.  I also have access to a vps server with root shell access.  

It is Centos based with support for python and php.  How do I setup wsgi with apache?  Do I need to create a

vhost file?  In that case, I'd use a subdomain for one of my domains.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Bruce 

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