[Answer]-How to host django project in ubuntu using wsgi_mod

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required packages:

  • Apache2
  • libapache2-mod-wsgi
  • Django

Create Empty Project

  • cd /var/www
  • sudo virtualenv foldername
  • cd foldername
  • sudo django-admin.py startproject projectname
  • cd projectname
  • sudo nano projectname.wsgi

projectname.wsgi file

 import os 
 import sys 
 sys.path.append('/var/www/foldername/projectname') 
 os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'projectname.settings' 
 from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application 
 application = get_wsgi_application()
  • cd /etc/apache2/sites-available
  • sudo nano projectname.conf

projectname.conf file

<VirtualHost *:80> 
    ServerName www.example.com   
    ServerAlias  www.example.com   
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost 
    DocumentRoot /var/www/foldername/projectname 
    WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/foldername/projectname/projectname.wsgi 
    Alias /static /var/www/foldername/static/static_only 
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log 
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined 
 </VirtualHost>

sudo nano /etc/hosts

you need to add following line into hosts file 

your_ip www.example.com

Goto your project location and run python manage.py collectstatic
now your local files copies are inside the static_only folder

may be you are getting “Attempt to write a readonly database ” error ,this permission issue so you need to run following command .

chown www-data:www-data /var/www/foldername
chown www-data:www-data /var/www/foldername/projectname/db.sqlite3

now type www.example.com on your browser

👤Nandha Kumar

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