[Django]-Django project on 80 port?

As docs say, runserver isn’t meant as a deployment server. It also mentions that you probably can’t start it on port 80 unless you run it as root.

Here is the kind of file you will need to put in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled, you need to adjust the paths in it. You also need to load mod_wsgi which you can do via apt-get.

<VirtualHost 192.168.1.14:80>
ServerAdmin youremail@whatever.com

ServerName www.whatever.com
ServerAlias whatever.com

Alias /robots.txt  /home/dimitris/Python/mysite/site_media/robots.txt
Alias /favicon.ico /home/dimitris/Python/mysite/site_media/favicon.png
Alias /static/     /home/dimitris/Python/mysite/site_media/static

WSGIDaemonProcess mysite user=dimitris processes=1 threads=5
WSGIProcessGroup mysite
WSGIScriptAlias / /home/dimitris/Python/mysite/deploy/mysqite_wsgi.py

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

ErrorLog  ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mysite.error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mysite.access.log combined

ServerSignature Off
</VirtualHost>

Most of this assumes you are running in a virtualenv, that means you will need a wsgi file to get things running. The above file sets up apache to run your “wsgi” file which looks something like this:

import os
from os.path import abspath, dirname, join
import sys

with open("/tmp/mysite.sys.path", "w") as f:
  for i in sys.path:
    f.write(i+"\n")


#redirect sys.stdout to sys.stderr for libraries that use
#print statements for optional import exceptions.
sys.stdout = sys.stderr

sys.path.insert(0, abspath(join(dirname(__file__), "../../")))
sys.path.insert(0, abspath(join(dirname(__file__), "../../lib/python2.7/site-packages/")))

from django.conf import settings
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'

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

mod_wsgi, then opens this one file and executes it. application is the part that waits for requests from the webserver, and the rest behaves just like runserver except it can be multi-process and multi-threaded.

In the terminal while in a virtual environment, run:

sudo ./manage.py runserver 80

You will be asked for your password and it will run the server on port 80.

The first , to create and active the virtual env:

python3 -m venv .venv

source .venv/bin/activate

second , install django :

pip install django

and run dev server with sudo:

sudo .venv/bin/python3 manage.py runserver 80

then open http://127.0.0.1/