I published a note that I wrote for my own use about the installation instructions for Django on an Ubuntu Server with the following stack:
- Nginx as a reverse proxy and for for serving static content;
- gevent, a libevent-based Python networking library that provides, among other things, an high performance WSGI-compliant web server and a monkey patch for replacing parts of the standard library with cooperative counterparts from gevent;
- MySQL.
By following the directions step-by-step a fully functional Django project should be up and running in no more than 30 minutes.