How to deploy Django app on Azure? - django

Question

I have posted before but not received an answer.
I have a Django web app developed in VS2017. I have published it but getting a server error. Can you please advise how I need to configure my web.config file so that it works? Currently it's:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="PYTHONPATH" value="D:\home\site\wwwroot"/>
<add key="WSGI_HANDLER" value="app.wsgi_app"/>
<add key="WSGI_LOG" value="D:\home\LogFiles\wfastcgi.log"/>
</appSettings>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="PythonHandler" path="*" verb="*" modules="FastCgiModule" scriptProcessor="D:\home\Python361x64\python.exe|D:\home\Python361x64\wfastcgi.py" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script"/>
</handlers>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
but I am getting an server error and Python log file says:
D:\home\Python361x64\python.exe: can't open file 'D:\home\site\wwwroot\runserver.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
I would appreciate any help.

Answer 1

You need to add static files url configuration to web.config file on KUDU which mentioned here.
I've tried to deploy my own Django project to azure and use your web.config file,and it works well.
You could refer to the web.config configuration as below:
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="WSGI_HANDLER" value="DjangoWebProject1.wsgi.application"/>
<add key="PYTHONPATH" value="D:\home\site\wwwroot"/>
<add key="WSGI_LOG" value="D:\home\LogFiles\wfastcgi.log"/>
</appSettings>
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
<add name="PythonHandler" path="handler.fcgi" verb="*" modules="FastCgiModule" scriptProcessor="D:\home\python362x86\python.exe|D:\home\python362x86\wfastcgi.py" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script"/>
</handlers>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Static Files" stopProcessing="true">
<conditions>
<add input="true" pattern="false" />
</conditions>
</rule>
<rule name="Configure Python" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/static/.*" ignoreCase="true" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="handler.fcgi/{R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Note:
Please make sure the value of path property in
<add name="PythonHandler" path="handler.fcgi" verb="*" modules="FastCgiModule" scriptProcessor="D:\home\python362x86\python.exe|D:\home\python362x86\wfastcgi.py" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Script"/>
is the same as the value of url property in
<action type="Rewrite" url="handler.fcgi/{R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />