Here's how I solved this problem for my own applications. Note that I use
VirtualEnv to ensure that each application gets exactly the Python
environment I want it to have. If you don't use VirtualEnv, it will make
the WSGI startup script simpler. Assume that my application is installed
with the following layout:
/data/web/foo/ -- base directory for foo (and the root of a VirtualEnv
environment)
bin/ -- VirtualEnv scripts, including 'python' symlink
lib/ -- Python libraries, including Django
apache/apache.wsgi -- Apache WSGI startup script
site/foo -- where the Foo site is installed (containing applications
like bar, baz, etc.)
site/foo/static -- where static content is stored
First, the Apache virtual host configuration:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName foo.example.com
ServerAdmin f...@example.com
ServerSignature email
LogLevel debug
WSGIProcessGroup foo
WSGIDaemonProcess foo processes=2 threads=5 home=/data/web/foo
display-name=foo
DocumentRoot /var/www
WSGIScriptAlias / /data/web/foo/apache/django.wsgi
<Directory /data/web/foo/apache>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /static/ /data/web/foo/site/foo/static/
<Directory /data/web/foo/site/foo/static/>
SetHandler None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
And now the WSGI startup script (most of this is just to make VirtualEnv
work):
import os, sys, site
here = os.path.abspath( os.curdir )
ALLDIRS = [
os.path.join( here, 'site' ),
os.path.join( here, 'lib', 'python2.6', 'site-packages' ),
]
# Remember original sys.path.
prev_sys_path = list(sys.path)
# Add each new site-packages directory.
for directory in ALLDIRS:
site.addsitedir(directory)
# Reorder sys.path so new directories at the front.
new_sys_path = []
for item in list(sys.path):
if item not in prev_sys_path:
new_sys_path.append(item)
sys.path.remove(item)
sys.path[:0] = new_sys_path
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'foo.settings'
import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()
In my settings.py file, I have the following:
import os, sys
SITEDIR = os.path.dirname( os.path.dirname( os.path.abspath( __file__ ) ) )
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join( SITEDIR, 'foo', 'static' )
MEDIA_URL = '/static/'
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/'
ROOT_URLCONF = 'foo.urls'
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
os.path.join( SITEDIR, 'foo', 'templates' ),
)
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.admin',
'foo.bar',
'foo.baz',
)
My urls.py file looks like this:
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib import admin
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
admin.autodiscover()
def home( *args, **options ):
return render_to_response( 'index.html' )
urlpatterns = patterns( '',
url( r'^$', home, name='site_index' ),
( r'^admin/', include( admin.site.urls ) ),
( r'^foo include( 'stackexchange.foo.urls' ) ),
( r'^bar include( 'stackexchange.bar.urls' ) ),
( r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
{'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT } ),
)
You only need the 'static' definition for when you're testing using
'runserver'; Apache intercepts all of the /static/ URLs before Django sees
them in production.
I hope this helps.
- Craig -
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 03:17, NoviceSortOf <dljonsson2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 15, 8:08 am, mongoose <darrenma1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm trying to run projects on the back of it. For examplehttp://
> baseurl.com/mongoose/
> > > The projects run but the URL don't work properly because they all
> > > reference the base url. So for 'About Me' page it points tohttp://
> baseurl.com/aboutinsteadofhttp://baseurl.com/mongoose/about
> >
> > > Is this something i need to change in django or apache? Is what I'm
> > > trying to do even possible?
>
> I wrestled with something like this - as we needed a static homepage
> based on a django backend for one site.
>
> Per my recollection what I did was.
>
> * Apache httpd.conf required a location match adjustment something
> like.
>
> <LocationMatch "\.(jpg|gif|png|php|html)$">
> SetHandler None
> </LocationMatch>
>
> * My url.py file needed this line
> (r'^$', direct_to_template,{'template': 'index.html'}),
>
> * As well I landed up having to put the index.html into both
> full static form in the .com root as well in the django template
> folder.
> This was neccesary so people could load into the site as
> "www.somewhere.com"
> and while once in the django backend
> "www.somewhere.com/index.html" would load for further
> navigating.
>
> I hope that makes sense, there was a downside to this in that
> our web provider Verio's site management front end does not work
> with us resetting the SetHandler in the root. In any case
> most management of this site is done on the command line level.
>
> Not a perfect solution but one that works, I'm open for other
> suggestions.
>
>
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