how do you configure apache with django?

Question

I am trying to configure django with apache. I do see two different site-packages directory in my system:

 /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages
 /usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages

The django and all the necessary libraries are installed in

/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages

How do I ensure apache reads the path as default python library?

Answer 1

You don't have to worry about that. Python will look for packages in both of those paths.

From Python docs :

First, consider that many Linux distributions put Python in /usr , rather than the more traditional /usr/local . This is entirely appropriate, since in those cases Python is part of "the system" rather than a local add-on. However, if you are installing Python modules from source, you probably want them to go in /usr/local/lib/python2.X rather than /usr/lib/python2.X .

You just need to configure the path to your django project's wsgi.py file. You can do it like this:

WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/mysite/mysite/wsgi.py

WSGIPythonPath /path/to/mysite

<Directory /path/to/mysite/mysite>
    <Files wsgi.py>
        Order deny,allow
        Require all granted
    </Files>
</Directory>

Note that wherever I've written mysite/mysite it means your project's inner directory (which contains settings, wsgi, etc. files)

EDIT

In case you want to see if those folders are in Python's search path , you can do this:

>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
# outputs python search path