please take steps bellow, for understand what is going on. for run django app on shared host where we have apache2 and fcgi module installed like hostgator.com
step 01 - create symbolic link for static (css, img, js) ======================================================== 1.1 if in your provider there is a /usr/local/lib/pythonx.y/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static try ex a: ln -s /usr/local/lib/pythonx.y/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static /home/your-user/public_html/static or use your own instaled version of python/django static files ex b: ln -s /home/your-user/django/v16a1/django/contrib/admin/static /home/your-user/public_html/static this solve style,css etc for admin app of django step 02 - .htacces for directory main app http ============================================== folder ex: /home/your-user/public_html/rundjango/ what url is: http://your-url-dot/rundjango/admin AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ mysite.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L] step 03 - index.fcgi (like index.html or index.php) =================================================== because we use pytz (for handle datetime) it is installed with "easy_install pytz", so it may be declared on sys.path. this is my index.fcgi after creation you may chmod +x index.fcgi for allow run mode #!/usr/local/bin/python import sys, os, user sys.path.insert(0, "/home/your-user/mycode/mysite") sys.path.insert(0, "/home/your-user/python/pytz-2013b-py2.6.egg") # Switch to the directory of your project. os.chdir("/home/your-user/mycode/mysite") # Set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable. os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = "mysite.settings" from django.core.servers.fastcgi import runfastcgi runfastcgi(method="threaded", daemonize="false") step 04 - verify environment vars $PATH and $PYTHONPATH ======================================================= this .bash_profile config your env setup when you login or your apps runs (ex. apache2, etc) verify that your PYTHONPATH is correct setup in this case we could use some different python version that one is default (ex. 2.6, 2.7, 3.2) # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi # User specific environment and startup programs PATH=$HOME/bin:$HOME/my-other-app-dir:$PATH PYTHONPATH=$HOME/python export PYTHONPATH export PATH step 05 - verify if your env is ok ================================== please logout and login for verify your env var is ok issue this commands: echo $PATH echo $PYTHONPATH run this small codes of python for verification python >>> import sys >>> for whatlocal in sys.path: ... print whatlocal ... Be Happy! Em quinta-feira, 27 de junho de 2013 07h06min50s UTC-3, Sheila escreveu: > > Following the django book > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/fastcgi/#running-django-on-a-shared-hosting-provider-with-apache > I am trying to deploy my project on shared host. > To try it first I am using a virtual Ubuntu 10.04 server. In my server > user can access http://localhost/~USER/ and if I put any html in > /home/user/public_html it can be access. > But the method in the book using .htacess and fastcgi do not work. I am > suspecting that my apache2 configuration is wrong. > Can someone tell me what do I need to change in my apache2 configuration > to set up share hosting?? I am new to apache2 :( > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
