How do I configure Apache to work with multiple Django apps?

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I want to run multiple Django project on Apache2 server. So if I type in my url:

localhost/OpenGMS

my OpenGMS project would run in the apache2 server and if I type in the url:

localhost/my_other_site

my other project will run in the apache2 server.

To do this I configured the /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf. It looks like this :

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName OpenGMS.org
    ServerAlias www.OpenGMS.org
    ServerAdmin samsadsajid@gmail.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www/OpenGMS

    WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/OpenGMS/OpenGMS/wsgi.py

    ErrorLog /var/www/logs/error.log
    CustomLog /var/www/logs/custom.log combined
</VirtualHost>

And also configured /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. I added a single line at the end of the file. The line is

WSGIPythonPath /var/www/OpenGMS

I find a question related to this here. It says that

An alternative which involves a bit more work, but can have other benefits, is to switch to using daemon mode of mod_wsgi to run the Django instances and delegate each to a separate set of processes. By running the Django instances in separate processes there can be no possibility of environment variables leaking from one to the other.

WSGIDaemonProcess project-2 WSGIScriptAlias /suburl
> /some/path/project-2/wsgi.py process-group=project-2

 WSGIDaemonProcess project-1 WSGIScriptAlias /
> /some/path/project-1/wsgi.py process-group=project-1

Then I configured the /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf again. It looked like this:

 <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName OpenGMS.org
    ServerAlias www.OpenGMS.org
    ServerAdmin samsadsajid@gmail.com

    DocumentRoot /var/www/OpenGMS

    WSGIDaemonProcess my_other_site 
    WSGIScriptAlias /my_other_site /var/www/my_other_site/my_other_site/wsgi.py process-group=my_other_site


    WSGIDaemonProcess OpenGMS
    WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/OpenGMS/OpenGMS/wsgi.py process-group=OpenGMS

    ErrorLog /var/www/logs/error.log
    CustomLog /var/www/logs/custom.log combined
</VirtualHost>

But I didn't configure the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file.

Now when I run the localhost/OpenGMS or/and localhost/my_other_site I get internal server error 500.

Is the error happening because I didn't edit the /etc/apache2/apache2.conf after adding a new site in the /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf or there are some other things I am doing wrong or don't know?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 08 '18 at 16:19

One potential solution is to use entries in your /etc/hosts file. You can then refer to localhost by different names and then have different virtualhost entries.

For example:

127.0.0.1     localhost host1 host2 host3 host4

You can now refer to localhost by any of the other names
http://host1/
http://host2/

And then have your virtual host for each

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName host1 
    ... 
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName host2

How do I configure Apache to work with multiple Django apps?

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