From the course: Deploying Django Apps: Make Your Site Go Live

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Connecting your URL

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Connecting your URL

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- [Instructor] At this point in time, our Django project is fully functional. And it's up and running live. It's running in an efficient way with NGINX and Gunicorn, it's perfectly ready to go, except for the fact that it's not the greatest URL for your website. You know we've just created this awesome portfolio. It's live on the internet. If you want to share it with your friend and I mean just try and tell them, hey, go to 178.128.7, right? Your friend would be very confused about how to access this whereas if you had some sort of custom URL in my case nickwalter.info, it'd be very easy to say, "Hey go check out my new site at nickwalter.info." So I'm going to show you quickly about how you can take a domain and have it point to your IP address where your server is located. So lot's of different places that you can buy domain names. I personally really like Google Domains. I think they keep it very simple. But you can use any domain name provider that you would like. We just need to…

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