Deploying Django application as Wordpress subpage (at sub url), mod-wsgi

Question

I have a Wordpress blog, let's say that it's address is like yakblog.org and it is a Wordpress blog installed on Ubuntu 12.04 server.

Now, I would like to run a Django application as one of the sub page of my blog, so I could access it like this: yakblog.org/testproject.

Here's the EXACT situation: https://community.webfaction.com/questions/17758/wordpress-on-root-domain-django-in-subdirectory (although I don't use webfaction). Also, I tried the solution given here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26013379/run-django-project-inside-wordpress-on-suburl-of-wordpress-using-apache-and-mod, but then I have a Wordpress message: This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?

However, I encountered some problems doing this, and I'm not sure if it's possible with my set up. Ok, so here's what I did to achieve what I need:

1. Created a Django project at /var/www/yak/public_html, so in /var/www/yak/public_html I have such structure:

2. Then, added a line WSGIPythonPath /var/www/yak/public_html/testproject to my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file

3. Here's my virtual host code:

   <VirtualHost *:80>
       ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
       ServerName  yakblog.org/testproject 
       ServerAlias www.yakblog.org/testproject 
   
   #RedirectPermanent / http://yakblog.org/testproject
   
   WSGIScriptAlias /testproject /var/www/yak/public_html/testproject/testproject/wsgi.py
   
   DocumentRoot /var/www/yak/public_html/testproject/
   
   <Directory />
           Options FollowSymLinks
           AllowOverride None
   </Directory>
   
   <Directory /var/www/yak/public_html/testproject/>
           Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
           AllowOverride All
           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 /home/yak/logs/error.log
   
   # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
   # alert, emerg.
   LogLevel warn
   
   CustomLog /home/yak/logs/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>
   

The problem is when entering http://yakblog.org/testproject I can't see my application, but only the list of files in this directory:

Answer 1

The problem is here

<Directory /var/www/yak/public_html/testproject/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory>

You are showing the content of the folder, not running the actual application.

You can look the documentation to setup your server https://docs.djangoproject.com/es/1.9/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/

What you need to do is install mod_wsgi and add this to

<Directory /path/to/mysite.com/mysite>
<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>

Where you only serve wsgi.py and wsgi.py it's used to serve your application.