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WSGIServer errors when trying to run Django app

Firstly, here's my script:

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

sys.path.append('/home/username/python')
sys.path.append("/home/username/python/flup")
sys.path.append("/home/username/python/django")
# more path stuff

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = "project.settings"

from django.core.servers.fastcgi import runfastcgi
runfastcgi(method="threaded", daemonize="false")

As was described here.

And here's the error I get when trying to run it from shell:

WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param REQUEST_METHOD required by WSGI!
WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_NAME required by WSGI!
WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_PORT required by WSGI!
WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_PROTOCOL required by WSGI!
Status: 404 NOT FOUND
Content-Type: text/html


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<!-- more html which looks to be the correct output -->

My question is, why aren't those params passed automatically by FastCGI? What am I doing wrong? Running the script from my web server just gives me an internal server error.

Instead of the last two lines of my script, I can use 

from flup.server.fcgi import WSGIServer
from django.core.handlers.wsgi import WSGIHandler
WSGIServer(WSGIHandler()).run()

But I still get the exact same error...

Solution

  • Solved it. This .htaccess file did the trick, for whatever reason. I swear I tried all this before...

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