I am a newbie to Django and web development in general, and I've completed the django tutorial and am working my way through the practical django projects book. I have a simple app that I wanted to try out: basically a form in HTML that takes inputs, reads a database, calculates and displays an output. I just want to 'get' it, for now. The goal is to dive in and try to execute a very basic app myself.
I'm running everything on windows: Apache 2.2, Django 1.3, Python 2.7 and Postgres 0.9. The django website recommends I go with mod_wsgi. I installed it in my Apache folder. My django folder is c:/djangostuff. All the projects/apps I've gone through so far are from this directory. I made some changes to my httpd.conf file and created a file called myapp.wsgi in c:/djangostuff, and also in apache2.2/htdocs >From my browser, localhost/myapp.wsgi returns "Hello World!", from which I gather it's working, whatever it is. But localhost is pointed at apache2.2/htdocs in the document root setting of my httpd.conf file. When I try http://127.0.0.1:8000/myapp.wsgi, I get a Page not found 404 error. I have gone through the django project website here: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/django_apache_and_mod_wsgi and the wsgi instructions for django here: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/IntegrationWithDjango. I've read up on as many articles on wsgi as I can, and the more I read, the more it confuses me. My questions: 1. I gather WSGI is an interface that is required to pass data between django/python and Apache, but the hell is it, really? 2. What is a .wsgi file, and in which directory does it go in? Once it goes in that directory, how does it work? 3. Once I've created a form in Django, how do I use wsgi to pass data to the application, and back? 4. Why does the instructions at modwsgi mention I store my django.wsgi under an apache subdirectory? Why is it that my hello world example works under localhost but not from http://127.0.0.1:8000/myapp.wsgi? My questions are probably stupid, but I have spent the last three days reading and I still can't figure out how to proceed. I would appreciate any explanation that helps me 'get' it. Thanks in advance! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
