Deploying multiple django apps on Apache with mod_wsgi

Question

I want to deploy two different django apps in the same host: The first will correspond to the url /site1 and the second to the url /site2. Here\'s my configuration:

Answer 1

This is a problem with the wsgi.py file generated by Django 1.4. It will not work where trying to host two distinct Django instances in the same process, even though in separate sub interpreters.

Change:

os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "site1.settings")

to:

os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = "site1.settings"

Or better still use daemon mode and delegate each to run in distinct daemon process groups.

That is, instead of:

WSGIScriptAlias /site1 /var/www/py/site1/site1/wsgi.py
WSGIScriptAlias /site2 /var/www/py/site2/site2/wsgi.py

WSGIPythonPath /var/www/py/site1:/var/www/py/site2

use:

WSGIDaemonProcess site1 python-path=/var/www/py/site1
WSGIScriptAlias /site1 /var/www/py/site1/site1/wsgi.py process-group=site1 application-group=%{GLOBAL}

WSGIDaemonProcess site2 python-path=/var/www/py/site2
WSGIScriptAlias /site2 /var/www/py/site1/site2/wsgi.py process-group=site2 application-group=%{GLOBAL}

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UPDATE

Note that there is a whole blog post about this and other causes now.

• http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2012/10/requests-running-in-wrong-django.html