joaoleveiga / django-wsgi-example

Example to test Django / mod_wsgi / Apache

django-wsgi-example

This is a very basic boilerplate-like repo for tests with Django, mod_wsgi and Apache Webserver integration.

This project assumes that the user wants to test this setup with a PostgreSQL database with a database called table whose owner is a test user with password test.

Instructions

1. Load up the project in a virtual environment.

Example setup:

$ cd /opt
$ git clone
$ cd django-wsgi-example/
$ virtualenv env
$ . env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ cd myproj/
$ python manage.py makemigrations
$ python manage.py migrate

2. Edit the apache conf

Open a file for a virtual host

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/djwsgi-example.conf

and add the following:

Listen 8008

<VirtualHost *:8008>
    WSGIScriptAlias / /opt/django-wsgi-example/myproj/myproj/wsgi.py
    WSGIDaemonProcess djwsgi-example python-path=/opt/django-wsgi-example/myproj:/opt/django-wsgi-example/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages
    WSGIProcessGroup djwsgi-example

    Alias /static/ /opt/django-wsgi-example/myproj/web/static/

    <Directory /opt/django-wsgi-example/myproj/web/static/>
        # Require all granted
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    
    <Directory /opt/django-wsgi-example/myproj/myproj>
        <Files wsgi.py>
            # Require all granted
            Order deny,allow
            Allow from all
        </Files>
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Cross your fingers while restarting Apache.

Probable Solution

SELinux seems to not like this setup. A probable solution for systems with CentOS 6 and Apache is to do this:

semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_script_exec_t FILE_PATH
restorecon -v FILE_PATH

To files that might be raising Permission Denied errors. Take special notice to database shared libraries (e.g. _psycopg2.so)

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License

(c) 2015 João Veiga

See LICENSE for more.