i'm a Django/Apache novice.
following lots of tutorial i was able to build my small app for Home Domotic.
Nevertheless i'm now experiencing a new problem.
In Django app i have some templates that i call with views passing some CONTEXT variables.
When i load the page with the internal Django Web Server (RUNWEBSERVER) the variables values are printed on the screen, but when i load the page with Apache the variables values are missing.
Can somebody help me ?
Thank you.
Ciao.
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Solved !!!
Is seems that Apache need a restart before reading python code modify.
Thanks all. Ciao.
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I am working on deploying a django app to heroku and I am having trouble with the webbrowser module. The function initially creates a pdf from html using pdfkit (this part works fine). Afterwards, I use '''webbrowser.open_new_tab''' to render the pdf in a new tab. This works perfectly locally, but not when I deploy to Heroku :( I checked the Heroku log, and it indicates that the pdf is being properly compiled and that the webbrowser command is successfully called, but alas, a new tab is not opened... Are there any suggestions on how best to tackle this issue? Perhaps I am missing an important environment variable that allows me to open new pages on the user's browser?
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It is my first time trying to get a Django application live on the net but I am having an issue with the URls.
The working local URL of my application is
http://localhost:8000/surveythree/ - This works as expected.
However when I upload my project to my hosting account I cant seem to locate the relevant page using the shortened URL as provided by the URLconf, in this case it should be /surveythree/
url(r'^surveythree/$', SurveyWizard.as_view([SurveyForm1, SurveyForm2, SurveyForm3, SurveyForm4, SurveyForm5])),
I can locate the page if I use the full filepath however.
http://www.mywebsite.com/bias_experiment/src/survey/templates/formtools/wizard/wizard_form.html
I thought the benefit of the URLconf was to shorten the URL to something like one of the following
http://www.mywebsite.com/bias_experiment/surveythree/
http://www.mywebsite.com/bias_experiment/src/surveythree/
http://www.mywebsite.com/bias_experiment/src/survey/surveythree/
Is there something simple that I am missing here? If anyone could tell me what the shortened URL should be based on the above it would be great. I have been trying multiple combinations for a while now but I don't know if I am going around in circles or doing it wrong.
Thanks in advance.
It doesn't look like you have actually deployed your site with a proper server. You can't just upload the files to any webserver and expect then to run: you need to configure a wsgi server and connect it to your app.
The documentation is here but to be honest I'd be amazed if your college server supported it at all, if all you have is a shared folder. You may be able to get it to work with FastCGI, but I wouldn't hold out a whole lot of hope.
(And even though you say that going to that long URL "works", I'd guarantee that all you're seeing is the raw HTML template. There's no way that any actual dynamic functionality will be working like that, as you'd see if you actually tried to submit the form at that URL.)
Deploying Django apps is much more complicated. To run in more "production" environment you will need to configure:
virtualenv to keep pip modules which your app required separate from global environment.
nginx for hosting static files ( you can copy them to some folder with ./manage.py collectstatic.
WSGI server: uWSGI or Gunicorn are both nice choices.
supervisor: for running and restarting WSGI and any other apps (for example celery) running in background
It's a lot for a start, so it's good to follow some tutorial and use ready to use config snippets.
I have a fuel php application created by one of my friend.Now I want to run it on aws EC2 instance(ubuntu).I can run the application using apache2 and its index page is loading.After facebook connect from index page it is supposed to show my fb friends list. But it is showing a 404 error POST http://ec2xxxxcompute.amazonaws.com/ajax/auth/facebook not found
I can see a get_facebook() method inside controller(/ajax/auth.php).But it is not catching the method.My top level understanding is i need some url mapping in server level.
Can anyone help me to run the app.Any suggestion will be highly appreciated as a biginner
Are any other URL's loading, or only the index page? If that is the case, it might be a rewriting issue.
Is the default .htaccess file still included in the /public folder? Or did your friend change it?
You may not actually be calling your php code at all. Don't you need something like :
http://ec2xxxxcompute.amazonaws.com/ajax/auth.php/facebook
Is there a way to hook on the loading of the django application?
I want to be able to execute code when the application is loaded, so that I can for example
create static variables to be used later on by the application or establish connections to other servers.
The best I came across was to add code in the __init__.py file (How do I create application scope variable django?) but the problem with this solution is that I want my code to be executed after django has finished its startup process, and not in the middle/start of it.
Another solution I came up with is to have a view that handles this process and then when the application is deployed I issue a request to the url of the view. I don't like this solution very much, I prefer it to be a part of the loading of the application.
Any ideas of how to pull this out?
Thanks;
edit: Apllication refers to the entire django project and not one of the INSTALLED_APPS
Right now, there's really no good way to do this as Django doesn't have a startup signal. Interestingly, there is a ticket for this, but it's strangely tied to a branch that is being held up by another ticket. I'm not sure if Django 1.4 is feature-locked, yet, but as it's in release candidate stage, my bet is that it is. So, maybe you might get this in Django 1.5 whenever that happens.
My Apache (mod_wsgi) Django app only lists the files of my website/project instead of the actual running website/application. My guess is that it's mod_wsgi that is the culprit but I'm not really sure. What are some of the causes of this?
Don't put your Django site code in a directory Apache can serve up. Right now if I knew the actual site host name, I could get down your Django settings file and get access to your database password information.
Anyway, ensure you have gone and set up a basic WSGI hello world program before you attempt to get Django working under mod_wsgi. In doing this, ensure you use the official mod_wsgi documentation and not some arbitrary persons blog post. As such, go read:
http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/QuickInstallationGuide
http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/QuickConfigurationGuide
Also go watch the video presentation at:
http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/WhereToGetHelp?tm=6#Conference_Presentations
as it steps you through basic configuration as well as what to do for Django. It covers all the basic things that people do wrong.
If you still can't get it to work, then heed the comments in:
http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/WhereToGetHelp?tm=6#Asking_Your_Questions
about useful information you should supply to any forum to help people solve your problem.