Install Django on Apache server with mod

What you have to install

sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb //make python be able to connect to mysql server

wget https://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.5.1/tarball/

tar xzvf Django-1.5.1.tar.gz
cd Django-1.5.1
sudo python setup.py install

install mysql and apache2

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi //to host your python project

These are pretty much what you need to install.

Files you need to create

In my case, create /home/ubuntu/firstweb.wsgi

import os
import sys

sys.path = ['/var/www/firstweb'] + sys.path
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'firstweb.settings'

import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

Another file you need to create is /etc/apache2/sites-available/firstweb


        WSGIScriptAlias / /home/ubuntu/firstweb.wsgi
        ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
        ServerName  firstweb.com
        Alias /static /var/www/firstweb/static/


        
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        

        ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

Note: remember to change the corresponding directory to suit your server. Here I list the full path of the files on my computer is only as a showcase such that you know where the files are.

Enable the sites and Restart Apach2 server

a2ensite /etc/apache2/sites-available/freeweb
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Having problems?

if you have any problems to get Django runing, one quick way to debug it out is to check out your log file as follows:

less /var/log/apache2/error.log

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