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Asked: 2015-07-29 12:08:20 +0800 CST

Deploying Django application as Wordpress subpage (at sub url), mod-wsgi

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I have a Wordpress blog, let's say that it's address is like yakblog.org and it is a Wordpress blog installed on Ubuntu 12.04 server.

Now, I would like to run a Django application as one of the sub page of my blog, so I could access it like this: yakblog.org/testproject.

Here's the EXACT situation: https://community.webfaction.com/questions/17758/wordpress-on-root-domain-django-in-subdirectory (although I don't use webfaction). Also, I tried the solution given here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26013379/run-django-project-inside-wordpress-on-suburl-of-wordpress-using-apache-and-mod, but then I have a Wordpress message: This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?

However, I encountered some problems doing this, and I'm not sure if it's possible with my set up. Ok, so here's what I did to achieve what I need:

  1. Created a Django project at /var/www/yak/public_html, so in /var/www/yak/public_html I have such structure:

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  1. Then, added a line WSGIPythonPath /var/www/yak/public_html/testproject to my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file

  2. Here's my virtual host code:

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    ServerName  yakblog.org/testproject 
    ServerAlias www.yakblog.org/testproject 

#RedirectPermanent / http://yakblog.org/testproject

WSGIScriptAlias /testproject /var/www/yak/public_html/testproject/testproject/wsgi.py

DocumentRoot /var/www/yak/public_html/testproject/

<Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/yak/public_html/testproject/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
        AllowOverride None
        Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog /home/yak/logs/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog /home/yak/logs/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

The problem is when entering http://yakblog.org/testproject I can't see my application, but only the list of files in this directory:

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apache-2.2

1 Answers

  1. The problem is here

    <Directory /var/www/yak/public_html/testproject/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory>

    You are showing the content of the folder, not running the actual application.

    You can look the documentation to setup your server https://docs.djangoproject.com/es/1.9/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/

    What you need to do is install mod_wsgi and add this to

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

    Where you only serve wsgi.py and wsgi.py it's used to serve your application.

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