[Answer]-Django deployment, all links are prepended with index.wsgi

For starters:

WSGIScriptAlias / var/www/index.wsgi

is wrong. You are missing leading slash on the path for the WSGI script.

You also should not really go sticking index.wsgi in DocumentRoot directory as you possibly are. If for some reason your VirualHost with WSGIScriptAlias isn’t being used, and a .wsgi handler of wsgi-script has been setup elsewhere in the Apache configuration, it means that a URL of /index.wsgi works to access your Django with all your problems then starting from there. This is because Django will believe it is meant to prefix URLs with /index.wsgi as that ends up being the mount point of the application.

So, move your WSGI script file out of DocumentRoot directory for your server. Remove any AddHandler directive for .wsgi extension. Ensure you VirtualHost is actually being used and specifically that WSGIScriptAlias directive usage is correct.

BTW, why are you using some arbitrary persons blog post rather than the official mod_wsgi setup notes on the Django docs site.

• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/