{"id":678,"date":"2012-06-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fir3netwp.gmsrrpobkbd.com\/2012\/06\/01\/how-do-i-configure-apache-to-serve-django\/"},"modified":"2021-07-31T16:21:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T16:21:27","slug":"how-do-i-configure-apache-to-serve-django","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fir3net.com\/Web-Development\/Django\/how-do-i-configure-apache-to-serve-django.html","title":{"rendered":"How do I configure Apache to serve my Django website ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In order for Apache to serve your Django website WSGI&nbsp;is configured.<\/p>\n<p>The Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) defines a simple and universal interface between web servers and web applications or frameworks for the Python programming language (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Web_Server_Gateway_Interface\">wikipedia<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Note :<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The following steps are based on a Linux Centos based distro.<\/li>\n<li>The following steps within this article are based on the following Django setup:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"codemulti\">[root@Fileserver \/]# tree \/opt\/django\/<br \/>\/opt\/django\/<br \/>|&#8211; yourproject<br \/>| | |&#8211; TEMPLATES<br \/>| | |&#8211; input.html<br \/>| | |&#8211; output.html<br \/>| |&#8211; __init__.py<br \/>| |&#8211; __init__.pyc<br \/>| |&#8211; <strong>apache<\/strong><br \/>| | `&#8211; <strong>django.wsgi<\/strong><br \/>| |&#8211; manage.py<br \/>| |&#8211; yourapp<br \/>| | |&#8211; __init__.py<br \/>| | |&#8211; __init__.pyc<br \/>| | |&#8211; models.py<br \/>| | |&#8211; models.pyc<br \/>| | |&#8211; tests.py<br \/>| | |&#8211; views.py<br \/>| | `&#8211; views.pyc<br \/>| |&#8211; <strong>settings.py<\/strong><br \/>| |&#8211; settings.pyc<br \/>| |&#8211; urls.py<br \/>| `&#8211; urls.pyc<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Compile<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>First the WSGI module is compiled and installed. This is achieved via the following commands,<\/p>\n<p class=\"codemulti\">yum install httpd-devel<br \/>yum install python-devel<br \/>cd ~<br \/>wget <br \/>tar -xvzf mod_wsgi-3.3.tar.gz<br \/>cd mod_wsgi-3.3<br \/>.\/configure<br \/>make<br \/>make install<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Configure Django<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Next create a new file within &#8216;\/&lt;django root&gt;\/&lt;project&gt;\/apache\/django.wsgi&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"codemulti\">cd \/opt\/django<br \/>cd project<br \/>mkdir apache ; cd apache<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Within django.wsgi add the following :<\/p>\n<p class=\"codemulti\">import os, sys<\/p>\n<p>path = &#8216;\/opt\/django\/yourproject&#8217;<br \/>if path not in sys.path:<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; sys.path.append(path)<\/p>\n<p>os.environ[&#8216;DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE&#8217;] = &#8216;settings&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>import django.core.handlers.wsgi<\/p>\n<p>application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Configure Apache<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Within the Apache configuration file &#8216;\/etc\/httpd\/conf\/httpd.conf&#8217; add the following line,<\/p>\n<p class=\"codemulti\">LoadModule wsgi_module modules\/mod_wsgi.so<\/p>\n<p>Next create a new file &#8216;\/etc\/httpd\/conf.d\/django.conf&#8217;. 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