Issue deploying Django project to Apache via WSGI

Question

Ubuntu 14.04.4 and Django 1.10

I'm trying to deploy a simple Django app that works perfectly in development to Apache, via WSGI. The relevant bits in my Apache config file:

<VirtualHost [my IP]>
    WSGIScriptAlias /Django/MedFormUpdates /home/web/inside/django/MedFormUpdates/MedFormUpdates/wsgi.py
    WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
</VirtualHost>

WSGIPythonPath /home/web/inside/django/MedFormUpdates/MedFormUpdates

<Directory "/home/web/inside/django/MedFormUpdates/MedFormUpdates">
        Options ExecCGI
        <Files wsgi.py>
            Require all granted
        </Files>
</Directory>

In my wsgi.py file:

import os, sys
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application

sys.path.append('/home/web/inside/django')
sys.path.append('/home/web/inside/django/MedFormUpdates')

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "MedFormUpdates.settings")

application = get_wsgi_application()

And in my settings.py:

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'MedFormUpdates.wsgi.application'

When I attempt loading the page, I get " We're sorry, the web server had an internal error. " - with the Apache log showing

End of script output before headers: wsgi.py

I've been through every Django/WSGI/Apache thread that I can find, and this is driving me nuts. Any insight is appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

It turns out that we have another Apache configuration file in the directory /etc/apache2/conf-enabled which has the following setting, which binds Python scripts (as well as Perl and CGI) to CGI:

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl .py

This is necessary for many other things that we have in production. In order to except my project from that, in my Apache config file I removed

Options ExecGI

and instead put

RemoveHandler .py

which now has the page showing just fine.

Answer 2

This question is impossible to answer without more information on

1. the rest of your stack;
2. which dependencies your django project has;
3. which Python versions you have installed;
4. how you installed Python and Apache;
5. how you are running Apache.