Glad to hear my information was useful. Now all I have to do is finish
figuring out how to use WAF to deploy my Django project and I'm all
set :-{}
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 11:51 -0800, Brandon Taylor wrote:
> FINALLY, it works.
>
> I guess the entire problem was that I had specified the website
> directory itself instead of the PARENT of the website directory in the
> PythonPath. Now I just need to tell Apache to not process anything
> else with mod_python and I should be good to go.
>
> Thanks Adam,
> b
>
> On Feb 8, 1:08 pm, Adam Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Just started with Django myself. Went thru 3 different tutorials.
> > Hopefully, what I'm mentioning below hasn't already been covered.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 10:34 -0800, Brandon Taylor wrote:
> > > So, chin up, moving on. Here is my website's directory structure:
> >
> > > /mysite
> > > /public
> > > /images
> > > /css
> > > /javascripts
> >
> > > /templates
> > > public.html
> > > home_page.html
> >
> > > views.py
> > > settings.py
> > > urls.py
> > > __init__.py
> > >From your directory structure, it looks like views.py, settings.py,
> >
> > urls.py, and __init__.py are NOT in 'mysite' but at the same level. If
> > that's true, that's one reason why mod_python can't find
> > "mysite.settings".
> >
> > I run Apache using virtual servers, so my <Location>...</Location> stuff
> > is associated with a specific virtual server (in httpd-vhosts.conf). If
> > you don't, you can put it into the top-level httpd.conf file. Mine
> > looks like this:
> >
> > <Location "/wise2/">
> > SetHandler python-program
> > PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
> > PythonInterpreter wise
> > PythonPath "['/home/adam/Src/WISE-2.0'] + sys.path"
> > SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE WebSite.settings
> > SetEnv PYTHON_EGG_CACHE /tmp/.python-eggs
> > PythonDebug On
> > </Location>
> >
> > I have everything athttp://my-server/wise2/and under handled by
> > mod_python. The two main things here are PythonPath and
> > DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE.
> >
> > Given your structure above, settings.py (along with views.py, urls.py,
> > and __init__.py) should be in the 'mysite' directory. Then PythonPath
> > would be set to point to the directory 'mysite' is in:
> >
> > PythonPath "['/my/dir'] + sys.path"
> >
> > In this case, your 'mysite' directory can be found at "/my/dir/mysite".
> > Then DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE would point to the settings file via the
> > Python import syntax:
> >
> > SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite.settings
> >
> > mod_python would find the settings.py file because it would be in the
> > 'mysite' directory.
> >
> >
> >
> > > When I start up the dev server using manage.py runserver, my
> > > home_page.html template will render, but no images, no css, etc.
> >
> > > How can I:
> >
> > > 1. Tell the development server what the root of the website is.
> > > 2. Where my images, css and javascript files are.
> >
> > > I have put: (r'^public/../(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
> > > {'document_root': '/public/../images'}),
> >
> > > in my URLconf, but, it's still not happy.
> >
> > I set up to handle static content if running in DEBUG mode (i.e. theff
> > # Set up to server static files if running within the development
> > # environment
> > if settings.DEBUG == True:
> > urlpatterns += patterns('django.views.static',
> > (r'^(?P<path>.*)$', "serve", {"document_root":
> > "/project/www/htdocs/WISE
> > ",}),
> > )
> >
> > This goes last in urls.py and will pick up anything not matched by a
> > real Django pattern match (i.e. everything that's NOT a Django page).
> > So if I have a URL like "<img src="/img/icons/UnknownPerson.jpg">, the
> > dev server will actually serve (given my example)
> > "/project/www/htdocs/WISE/img/icons/UnknownPerson.jpg" from the local
> > filesystem.
> > --
> > Adam Stein @ Xerox Corporation Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Disclaimer: All views expressed
> > here have been proved to be my own. [http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/]
> >
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Adam Stein @ Xerox Corporation Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disclaimer: All views expressed
here have been proved to be my own. [http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/]
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