How to put Django within a subdirectory of a website? - django

Question

I want to run WordPress at mysite.com/, because it's easier to edit sales copy and such. I want to run my Django site within mysite.com/members/
httpd.conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mysite.com
ServerAlias www.mysite.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/mysite.com
WSGIDaemonProcess mysite python-path=/var/www/mysite.com/mysite:/var/www/mysite.com/
WSGIProcessGroup mysite
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/mysite.com/mysite/mysite/wsgi.py
</VirtualHost>
What exactly do I need to do so that Django runs within the /members/ directory on my domain/website?

Answer 1

Use:
WSGIScriptAlias /members /var/www/mysite.com/mysite/mysite/wsgi.py
Do be aware that by doing that, since you have made the mistake of setting DocumentRoot to be a parent directory of your source code, people will be able to download the source code, including sensitive information in the settings module.
So, do not set DocumentRoot to be what you have. Have it refer to an en empty directory, of the default htdocs directory for the whole server.

Answer 2

To follow up on the previous answer and comments, here's an example of how I might do this if I had to:
<VirtualHost *:80>
# WordPress
ServerName mysite.com
ServerAlias www.mysite.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/mysite.com
# Django
WSGIDaemonProcess mysite python-path=/var/django/django_project/virtualenv/django_project
WSGIProcessGroup mysite
WSGIScriptAlias /members /var/django/django_project/django_project/wsgi.py
Alias /members/static/ /var/django/django_project/static/
</VirtualHost>
Definitely understand the security concerns raised in comments, however.