I have the following codes for deploying a Django 1.9 project named deploy_project on a CentOS 7 server.
wsgi.py
import os
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "deploy_project.settings")
application = get_wsgi_application()
The above was generated by default.
httpd.conf
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/deploy_project/deploy_project/wsgi.py
WSGIPythonPath /var/www/deploy_project
<Directory /var/www/deploy_project/deploy_project>
<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>
My project directory is in /var/www/deploy_project. Inside that I have an app called Deploy, the project settings folder called the same as the project name deploy_project and the manage.py file. I also have a db.sqlite3 file as I am not using MySQL, but my app just runs a view which shows Hello World. I am not using the database.
When I visit the server IP from browser, I receive a 404 Not Found page with the message The requested URL / was not found on this server..
tree output of project folder
├── db.sqlite3
├── deploy
│ ├── admin.py
│ ├── admin.pyc
│ ├── apps.py
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── __init__.pyc
│ ├── migrations
│ │ ├── __init__.py
│ │ └── __init__.pyc
│ ├── models.py
│ ├── models.pyc
│ ├── templates
│ │ ├── 404.html
│ │ └── deploy
│ │ └── hello.html
│ ├── tests.py
│ ├── urls.py
│ ├── urls.pyc
│ ├── views.py
│ └── views.pyc
├── deploy_project
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── __init__.pyc
│ ├── settings.py
│ ├── settings.pyc
│ ├── urls.py
│ ├── urls.pyc
│ ├── wsgi.py
│ └── wsgi.pyc
└── manage.py
project urls.py
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
url(r'^', include('deploy.urls')),
]
app urls.py
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^$', views.Hello, name='hello'),
]
views.py
def Hello(request):
return render(request, "deploy/hello.html", {})
hello.html
Hello World!
Being the dumb developer that I am, I didn't restart apache service, so my settings didn't take effect.
For CentOS 7 my command was:
sudo systemctl restart httpd
That solved my problem. Thanks for your time @BurhanKhalid.