On Oct 22, 2:23 am, projecktzero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 20, 4:17 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:15 PM, projecktzero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > > I'm pretty new to Django. I'm having trouble getting my Django
> > > app/web-site to run under Apache2 and Mod_Python. I'm running Django
> > > 0.96. I installed Apache2 and Mod_Python and tested both, and they
> > > seem to work properly.
>
> > > In my http.conf, I have the following:
>
> > > <Location "/hwsw2/">
> > > Python Path "['/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/hwsw2','/usr/lib/
> > > python2.3/site-packages/django'] + sys.path"
> > > SetHandler python-program
> > > PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
> > > SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE hwsw2.settings
> > > PythonDebug On
> > > </Location>
>
> > > The file permissions appear to be correct.(apache owns the .py files
> > > and they are executable, the .html templates are all ready-only for
> > > the world.)
>
> > > Unfortunately, I get the following error:
>
> > > EnvironmentError: Could not import settings 'hwsw2.settings' (Is it on
> > > sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): No module named hwsw2.settings
>
> > > Does anyone have any ideas on what I did to mis-configure this?
>
> > First, you've got a space in the PythonPath setting in your Location
> > directive. Every example I've seen has no space there so I don't think a
> > space is allowed (though I did not actually verify that a space breaks
> > things).
>
> > Second you've specified 'hwsw2' in both the PythonPath and the SetEnv for
> > the settings module, so the file names that will be searched for are
> > /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/hwsw2/hwsw2/settings.py, etc. If you are going to
> > specify the settings module as hwsw2.settings then
> > '/usr/local/apache2/htdocs', without the trailing hwsw2, needs to be on your
> > python path. Whether you need both directories on the path depends on how
> > you import things in your code. If you always specify hwsw2 in your imports
> > than you don't need to have it be specified explicitly in the python path,
> > just its parent.
>
> > Third you don't need to specify anything under site-packages (site-packages
> > is automatically searched) in the PythonPath, so you should remove
> > '/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/django' from the PythonPath setting.
>
> > Karen
>
> Thanks Karen
>
> I had caught the PythonPath issue after sending the post. Here's what
> worked:
>
> <Location "/hwsw2/">
> PythonPath "['/usr/local/apache2/htdocs'] + sys.path"
> SetHandler python-program
> PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
> SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE hwsw2.settings
> PythonDebug On
> </Location>
It is bad practice to put Django source code under Apache document
root (htdocs). If you do this and Apache gets misconfigured, you can
expose all your source code to the world, including any sensitive
information in it like database passwords.
Graham
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