Deploying Django on Apache web server

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Deploying Django on Apache web server

(Tested on Ubuntu 14.04 and Apache 2.4.7)

1. Install and enable mod_wsgi

• sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
• sudo a2enmod wsgi

2. Static files

Go to project folder and collect static files (setting STATIC_ROOT must be specified) - python manage.py collectstatic

3. Site config

Add site config to the folder etc/apache2/sites-available:

Listen 8030

<VirtualHost *:8030>

    WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/Project/Project/wsgi.py

    WSGIDaemonProcess mysite python-path=/path/to/Project:/path/to/Project-Env
    WSGIProcessGroup mysite

    Alias /static /path/to/Project/static
    Alias /media /path/to/Project/media

    <Directory /path/to/Project/static>
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    <Directory /path/to/Project/media>
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    <Directory /path/to/Project>
        <Files wsgi.py>
            Require all granted
        </Files>
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

4. Enable site and restart Apache:

• sudo a2ensite.conf
• sudo service apache2 restart

5. Open localhost:8040 in browser

Possible errors:

• Attempt to write a readonly database chmod 664 db.sqlite3 sudo chown :wwww-data db.sqlite3

• Unable to open database file sudo chown :www-data .

• Permission denied for media folder sudo chown :www-data ./media/ -R