--- canonical: "https://www.jsolly.com/blog/Migrating-from-apache-to-Nginx-Gunicorn/" title: "Switching to Nginx and Gunicorn: Updating My Blog's Web Server" description: "Upgrade your server and application with this step-by-step guide on migrating from Apache to Nginx and Gunicorn. Improve website speed and security!" author: "John Solly" published: "2022-06-29T03:30:36.340Z" updated: "2024-11-06T13:38:17.835Z" --- # Switching to Nginx and Gunicorn: Updating My Blog's Web Server ![Meta Image](https://d1d7p8ufhgz4ld.cloudfront.net/media/post_metaimgs/gunicorn-logo.png) When I first created this blog, I used Apache to handle all the web requests and serve static files. With [this PR](https://github.com/jsolly/awesome-django-blog/pull/116) blogthedata.com has a new web server (Nginx) and application server (Gunicorn)! Here's what I did: 1 - Export blogthedata database from postgres 2 - Shut down existing Ubuntu VM  3 - Create new Ubuntu VM 4 - Create new DNS A records in Cloudflare to redirect to the new IP address 5 - Follow [this guide](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-django-with-postgres-nginx-and-gunicorn-on-ubuntu-20-04) to install all the components. 6 - Re-run [Certbot](https://certbot.eff.org/) to install new HTTPS certificates Done! June 29, 2022 in [Dev Tools](https://www.jsolly.com/blog/category/dev-tools/) Updated November 6, 2024