Deploying Django at alwaysdata.com

Question

I am new on django. I tried this but I can't deploy. How can I do

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import os

base = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) + '/..'
sys.path.append(base)

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'myfirstapp.settings'

import django.core.handlers.wsgi

application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler() 

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AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(media/.*)$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^(adminmedia/.*)$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(cgi-bin/myproject.fcgi)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ mysite.fcgi/$1 [L]

Answer 1

Here's the alwaysdata wiki entry for setting up Django with fastcgi. Only down-side: it's written in French.

Well, I don't speak French, but what it basically says is:

1. Create a directory named public in the folder of your django project.

2. In that directory create the file django.fcgi with the following content:

   #!/usr/bin/python
   import os, sys
   
   _PROJECT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
   sys.path.insert(0, _PROJECT_DIR)
   sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(_PROJECT_DIR))
   
   _PROJECT_NAME = _PROJECT_DIR.split('/')[-1]
   os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = "%s.settings" % _PROJECT_NAME
   
   from django.core.servers.fastcgi import runfastcgi
   runfastcgi(method="threaded", daemonize="false")
   

3. Next, create a .htaccess in the public folder with the following content:

   AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ django.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]
   

4. If you're planning to include the django admin interface, create this symbolic link in your public directory:

   ln -s /usr/local/alwaysdata/python/django/1.1/django/contrib/admin/media/ media
   

5. In the end your folder tree hierarchy should somehow look like this:

   myproject/
       __init__.py
       manage.py
       public/
           django.fcgi
           .htaccess
           media/
       settings.py
       urls.py
       myapp/
           views.py
           models.py
   

Hope this helps. I talked with the admin, and he said he will soon provide an English wiki. Let's hope this is going to happen anytime soon.

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UPDATE: There is an English wiki article now.