can't run a django project with apache on a subdomain - django

Question

I have an online shop which contains a main page and a shop page. now this main page and shop page are actually two different projects, so in order to have them online, I have to run two instances of django.
now the things is, i want to have the main page on www.setakshop.ir, and the shop on shop.setakshop.ir. The thing is, after setting up the necessary settings, both shop.setakshop.ir and setakshop.ir point to the main page! and I can only see the shop page through setakshop.ir:8000, which I expected apache to proxy it to shop.setakshop.ir
I serve the DNS myself and here are my DNS settings:
;
; BIND data file for setakshop.ir
;
$TTL 3h
# IN SOA ns1.setakshop.ir. admin.setakshop.ir. (
1 ; Serial
3h ; Refresh after 3 hours
1h ; Retry after 1 hour
1w ; Expire after 1 week
1h ) ; Negative caching TTL of 1 day
;
# IN NS ns1.setakshop.ir.
# IN NS ns2.setakshop.ir.
setakshop.ir. IN MX 10 mail.setakshop.ir.
setakshop.ir. IN A xx.xx.xx.xx
ns1 IN A xx.xx.xx.xx
ns2 IN A xx.xx.xx.xx
www IN CNAME setakshop.ir.
mail IN A xx.xx.xx.xx
ftp IN CNAME setakshop.ir.
shop IN A xx.xx.xx.xx
and when run
nslookup shop.setakshop.ir
i get a valid response. So I think the DNS setup is actually fine.
Now the other thing I suspect, is my apache settings. I suspect that I haven't set the proxy settings right. here it is:
<VirtualHost *:80>
WSGIDaemonProcess main python-path=/var/www/setak:/var/www/setak/setakenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages
WSGIProcessGroup main
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/setak/setakenv/main/ashop/ashop/ashop/wsgi.py
ServerAdmin admin#setakshop.ir
ServerName www.setakshop.ir
ProxyPass / http://www.setakshop.ir:8001/
ProxyPassReverse / http://www.setakshop.ir:8001/
Alias /media/ /var/www/setak/setakenv/main/ashop/ashop/static/media/
Alias /static/ /var/www/setak/setakenv/main/ashop/ashop/static/
<Directory /var/www/setak/setakenv/main/ashop/ashop/static>
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/setak/setakenv/main/ashop/ashop/static/media>
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:8080>
WSGIDaemonProcess setak python-path=/var/www/setak:/var/www/setak/setakenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages
WSGIProcessGroup setak
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/setak/setakenv/setakmain/django-oscar/sites/sandbox/wsgi.py
ServerAdmin admin#setakshop.ir
ServerName shop.setakshop.ir
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyPass / http://shop.setakshop.ir:8000
ProxyPassReverse / http://shop.setakshop.ir:8000
Alias /robots.txt /var/www/setak/setakenv/setakmain/django-oscar/sites/sandbox/static/robots.txt
Alias /media/ /var/www/setak/setakenv/setakmain/django-oscar/sites/sandbox/public/media/
Alias /static/ /var/www/setak/setakenv/setakmain/django-oscar/sites/sandbox/public/static/
<Directory /var/www/setak/setakenv/setakmain/django-oscar/sites/sandbox/public/static>
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/setak/setakenv/setakmain/django-oscar/sites/sandbox/public/media>
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Now I dont get what I'm doing wrong here!
I run both the projects with the following command :
./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8001
Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?
thanks in advance.

Answer 1

That really is not how you run Django applications via Apache. runserver is not designed for or appropriate for production; it makes no sense to use Apache as a reverse proxy to runserver.
Confusingly it seems that you have correctly set up WSGIScriptAlias for one of your sites, but you are still proxying it. You need to remove the proxy stuff altogether, forget about runserver, and use mod_wsgi throughout.
The way to get Apache to serve two sites on two domains is to use NamedVirtualHosts. You simply set up two separate ones, each with the correct server name.

Answer 2

First of all you should not use ./manage.py runserver along with apache and you should not use ./manage.py runserver when you move your website to production. runserver is only for development environment, it can handle only one request at a time.
You should use mod_wsgi for running your project using Apache. Look the docs here
Or else gunicorn and nginx can be used for running your project. Have a look at this.