Running Django on Apache and MySQL

Installing Django

Django is used in your project as any other python module. The easiest way would be to get it from your operating system repository or pip.

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# From your operating systems repositories.
yaourt -S python-django
 
# From Python's package manager.
pip install django
Programming Language: Bash

Check if and what version of django you have installed.

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python -c 'import django; print(django.get_version())'
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Creating a project

Go to your project directory and run django-admin command on your command line to create the skeleton for your web development project.

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django-admin startproject mysite
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Apache

• Make sure you have enabled mod_wsgi, you can see "Running Python on Apache" for more information.
• I have "/var/www/python" for my python instance. In that folder I have manage.py from the last step.
• I added "127.0.0.1 python" to my "/etc/hosts". Then my instance opens from http://python/
• I have configuration for my python instance in vhosts.

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<VirtualHost python:80>
    ServerAdmin info@browse-tutorials.com
    ServerName python
    ServerAlias python
 
    WSGIDaemonProcess mysite python-path=/var/www/python:/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages
    WSGIProcessGroup mysite
    WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/python/mysite/wsgi.py
 
    <Directory /var/www/python>
        <Files wsgi.py>
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
        </Files>
    </Directory>
 
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/.python-error_log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/.python-access-log combined
</VirtualHost>
Programming Language: Apache configuration

When this was done and Apache restarted. I had error 500. From the apache log I found out that database is requirement for Django.

MySQL

In "/var/www/python/mysite/" I have "settings.py". The directory "mysite" was created by django-admin. In that file is DATABASES variable, that contains the information.

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DATABASES = {
'default': {
    'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
    'NAME': 'python',
    'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
    'PORT': '3306',
    'USER': 'root',
    'PASSWORD': '',
}}
Programming Language: Python

• So you could connect to database. "pip install mysql-python"
• Run "python manage.py migrate" to create neccessary database changes.
• Everything should be up and running now. There should be a welcome page.