How to configure Apache to work with Django - django

Question

I've followed the instructions on Django website for configuring Apache with my Django app on a CentOS 7 server. This included building mod_wsgi from sources to work with the installed python3.4.
Apache restarts without errors but when I hit my app with the URL
http://example.com/myapp/
I get a 503 error like:
Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at example.com Port 80
I'm not sure how I troubleshoot what's wrong here. Can anyone help?
Details of the config:
My django app lives at /mnt/net/django/myapp
I've added the file wsgi.conf to my apache conf.d directory and it looks like this:
#LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so
# use python34 pip installes mod_wsgi
LoadModule wsgi_module "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/mod_wsgi/server/mod_wsgi-py34.cpython-34m.so"
#WSGIPythonHome "/usr"
Alias /robots.txt /mnt/net/django/myapp/static/robots.txt
Alias /favicon.ico /mnt/net/django/myapp/static/favicon.ico
Alias /media /mnt/net/django/myapp/media/
Alias /static/ /mnt/net/django/myapp/static/
<Directory /mnt/net/django/myapp/static>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /mnt/net/django/myapp/media>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
# Allows URLs like example.com/myapp to forward to django
WSGIScriptAlias /myapp /mnt/net/django/myapp/myappsite/wsgi.py process-group=example.com
# Use the virtual env for the myapp site
#WSGIPythonHome /mnt/net/django/myapp/env-myapp-py3-4
# Need to use WSGIDaemon
WSGIDaemonProcess example.com python-home=/mnt/net/django/myapp/env-myapp-py3-4 python-path=/mnt/net/django/myapp
#WSGIPythonPath /mnt/net/django/myapp
<Directory /mnt/net/django/myapp/myappsite>
<Files wsgi.py>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Files>
</Directory>

Answer 1

How to use Django with Apache and mod_wsgi -- follow this: I have done it myself many times, it is very straight forward.
Tip: Create a document and record everything you do whilst setting this up, this way if it doesn't work then you can retrace your steps, but if it does work... Great, you have your very own guide to setting up an Apache server for Django.

Answer 2

Solved my problem (mostly)
The problem is that mod_wsgi with a daemon process tries to write a socket file into the apache logs directory and permissions are denied.
Solution is to tell apache another place to write the socket like this:
WSGISocketPrefix /var/run/wsgi