Wagtail on Ubuntu 16.04

Installing Wagtail on Ubuntu 16.04

Install Postgres

# sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
# sudo apt-get install postgresql-server-dev-9.5

Python 3 is installed by default

Install the Python packages and dependencies

# sudo apt-get install python3-pip
# sudo apt-get install python3-venv
# sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
# sudo apt-get install libtiff5-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev python3-tk

Create Python Virtual Environment

Create the Python virtual environment and install the necessary Wagtail dependencies into the virtual environment

# python3 -m venv python_wagtaildemo
# source python_wagtaildemo/bin/activate
# pip install wheel
# pip install wagtail
# pip install psycopg2

Create database and user for website

This should be done as the 'postgres' user

$ createuser demouser -P
$ createdb demodb -O demouser

Create the site

# wagtail start wagtaildemo
# cd wagtaildemo
# vi wagtaildemo/settings/base.py
...
...
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
'NAME': 'demodb',
'USER': 'demouser',
'PASSWORD': 'demopassword',
'HOST':'127.0.0.1',
'PORT':'', # Set to empty string for default.
}
}
:wq!
# ./manage.py migrate
# ./manage.py createsuperuser

Run the site

# ./manage.py runserver