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I'm trying to deploy a Django application, but I've hit a brick wall. On Debian (latest), I've run these commands so far:

apt-get install apache2 apache2-doc apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils libexpat1 ssl-cert libapache2-mod-python python-django

I've tried adding the module manually in the Apache 2 config files, but to be honest I'm totally lost. It's totally different to Apache version 1 which I used years ago.

Syntax error on line 7 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:
Invalid command 'PythonHandler', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

I've added the following to my sites-available/default file, between the tags.

    <Location "/">
              SetHandler python-program
              PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
              SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE hellodjango1.settings
              PythonDebug Off
    </Location>

Here's what tutorials I've used so far, without much luck:

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Have you enabled mod_python.load in mods-enabled? You can do this by just creating a softlink to the same file in mods-available.

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  • txwikinger, thanks for the tip - I had to manually create the .load file. Which is odd since I assumed it'd already be there. Aug 23, 2009 at 10:55
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more easy way to do it

a2enmod python

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On Ubuntu, you need to:

apt-get install libapache2-mod-python
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Looks like I had to manually create the python.load file, weird. Anyway, these two commands fixed it:

echo "LoadModule python_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_python.so" > /etc/apache2/mods-available/python.load
ln -s ../mods-available/python.load etc/apache2/mods-enabled/python.load
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  • Hmm, a down-vote. Maybe I will review which answer works best for this question. Dec 6, 2010 at 22:17
  • there is missing slash: etc/apache2/mods-enabled/python.load
    – Petr
    Dec 9, 2016 at 14:32
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If you're using Gentoo, define -D PYTHON in /etc/conf.d/apache2

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