On one of my servers I run a couple sites via Django and recently when I upgraded the server it broke the Django sites that were running via FastCGI. After some investigation I was able to find the issue which happened to be a basic conflict between python2.4 which is the default python version on…
I got stuck trying to display the Django media files from a Django project served using FastCGI configured in Apache. I thought for sure that the issue must be something with Apache so I tried a ton of different configuration variables. I wanted to share in case anyone else runs into the CSS and image…
I have been messing around with Django over the past week and experimenting with various settings. I first ran Django using mod_ptyhon from Apache but the results were unimpressive. Apache served the Django project’s pages extremely slow using the Apache mod_python module. After some reading I decided to give the Apache mod_fastcgi module a try…
I got the error below when attempting to configure a Django project to be served by FastCGI via Apache for the first time. I have configured FastCGI but it had been awhile and the server I was working with had ISPConfig installed on it and what I thought to be mod_fastcgi. Below I explain the…
I recently was installing Django for a test project and needed to upgrade Python on a CentOS server to 2.6. The current revisions available via yum on CentOS are 2.4. The yum package manager requires Python 2.4 still to function properly so upgrading Python to 2.6 manually will break the CentOS yum package manager. After…
I received an error when configuring a Django run site for the first time. The setup included installing and configuring some items I am not so familiar with such as mod_python, Django, and other Python items. I finally started making some progress and when I initially launched a test site I received the below errors…