Setup of icons, sitemap and robots -files with Django

Icons

The usual expected sizes of the favicon.ico -file are 16x16 or 32x32. The apple-touch-icon.png and the apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png sizes are 180x180. You should have the files

favicon.ico
favicon.png (new browsers support png)
apple-touch-icon.png
apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png

Create these files with some drawing editor and locate them to the /../Project/static_main -folder. On the terminal server type the command

python manage.py collectstatic

Add lines

inside the header < head> ... < /head> of the html-page.

Edit your mysite_nginx.conf file

upstream mysite {
server unix:///tmp/mysite.sock;
}

server {
server_name mlconvex.dev www.mlconvex.dev;
listen 80;
return 301 https://mlconvex.dev;
}
server {
server_name mlconvex.dev www.mlconvex.dev;
listen 443 ssl;
charset utf-8;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.1 TLSv1;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/mlconvexdev_cert_chain.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/mlconvexdev.key;
client_max_body_size 4G;
access_log /dev/null;
error_log /dev/null;
location /media {
alias /../Project/media;
}
location /static {
alias /../Project/static;
}
location /favicon.ico {
alias /../Project/static/favicon.ico;
}
location /apple-touch-icon.png {
alias /../Project/static/apple-touch-icon.png;
}
location /apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png {
alias /../Project/static/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png;
}
location / {
include /../Project/uwsgi_params;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
uwsgi_pass mysite;
}
}

Restart Django and Nginx and the icons should be now available.

Sitemap

Create a sitemap. Example of a sitemap.xml file is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
<url>
<loc>https://mlconvex.dev/</loc>
<lastmod>2019-06-28</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.00</priority>
</url>
</urlset>

Locate the file to the /../Project/static_main -folder. On the terminal server type the command

python manage.py collectstatic

Add lines

location /sitemap.xml {
alias /../Project/static/sitemap.xml;
}

to your mysite_nginx.conf file. Restart Django and Nginx.

Robots file

Create a robots.txt file. An example of the file is

Sitemap: https://mlconvex.dev/sitemap.xml
User-agent:*
Disallow:

Locate the file to the /../Project/static_main -folder. On the terminal server type the command

python manage.py collectstatic

Add lines

location /robots.txt {
alias /../Project/static/robots.txt;
}

to your mysite_nginx.conf file. Restart Django and Nginx.

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