Django with WSGI behind Apache VirtualHost gives 404

Question

I'm trying to run a Django application on an Apache server, in a virtual host using WSGI.

I followed the Django docs exactly, but it there still seems to be some issue here.

I have everything configured properly as far as I can tell.

wsgi.py:

import os
import sys

path='/var/www/docs/'
sys.path.append(path)

os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = "DocsEngine.settings"

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

virtualhost file:

Listen 8000

WSGIPythonPath /var/www/docs

<VirtualHost *:8000>
    WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/docs/DocsEngine/wsgi.py

    ServerName myurl.com
    Alias /resources/ /var/www/docs/resources/

    <Directory /var/www/docs/DocsEngine>
        <Files wsgi.py>
            Require all granted
        </Files> 
    </Directory>

    CustomLog /var/log/apache2/wsgi-access.log combined  
    ErrorLog  /var/log/apache2/wsgi-error.log

</VirtualHost>

When navigating to myurl.com:8000/ it comes up with a 404 page.

• My firewall has port 8000 open
• This vhost is enabled in apache.
• Apache has mod_wsgi enabled
• The django app works when running it locally with the dev server.
• Both my local machine and server are running python 2.7.6 and django 1.7.3

I am able to access stuff located in my /resources directory, so I know apache can recognize some part of this.

I've been banging my head on this for hours, any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

After about 14 hours of Google-fu and a lot of failures, I finally found the solution. Apparently they made undocumented breaking changes in both Django 1.7 and Apache 2.4.

First, I needed to disable mod_python from Apache. Apparently it causes silent problems when WSGI is also enabled. As soon as I disabled it, my logs started blowing up, thank god. Here is the link I found where this solution was described to me: http://marc-abramowitz.com/archives/2012/09/28/some-tips-for-setting-up-apache-and-mod_wsgi/

Given the errors found from disabling mod_python, I discovered that Django's WSGI.py file needs to be initialized in this manner, differing to what is described in the docs:

from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
application = get_wsgi_application()

https://www.pythonanywhere.com/forums/topic/1629/#id_post_11030

Hope this helps poor souls who encounter this issue in the future.

Answer 2

please have a look these steps : create new file :

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/domain_name

write these lines into your new file.

<VirtualHost *:8000>
        ServerAdmin [email protected]
        ServerName myurl.com
        ServerAlias myurl.com
        WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/docs/DocsEngine/wsgi.py

        Alias /static/ /home/cis/DjangoLive/cismailer/static/
        <Location "/static/">
            Options -Indexes
        </Location>
</VirtualHost>

Then run:

sudo a2ensite domain_name

Then Open file :

sudo nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf

change port in this file :

NameVirtualHost *:8000
Listen 8000

Then sudo service apache2 restart

Hope this will work for you.

if you using virtualenv your wsgi script file look like this:

import os
import sys
import site

# Add the site-packages of the chosen virtualenv to work with

site.addsitedir('/path/of/your/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages')

# Add the app's directory to the PYTHONPATH
sys.path.append('/var/www/docs/DocsEngine')
sys.path.append('/var/www/docs/DocsEngine/DocsEngine')


# Activate your virtual env
activate_env=os.path.expanduser("/path/of/your/env/bin/activate_this.py")

execfile(activate_env, dict(__file__=activate_env))

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "DocsEngine.settings")


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

Here is some like you can use for more info: http://thecodeship.com/deployment/deploy-django-apache-virtualenv-and-mod_wsgi/

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-run-django-with-mod_wsgi-and-apache-with-a-virtualenv-python-environment-on-a-debian-vps