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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Deploying Django with Apache and mod_wsgi


Deploying Django with Apache (http://httpd.apache.org/) and mod_wsgi(http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi) is a tried and tested way to get Django into production. mod_wsgi is an Apache module which can host any Python WSGI application, including Django. Django will work with any version of Apache which supports mod_wsgi. The official mod_wsgi documentation is fantastic; it's your source for all the details about how to use mod_wsgi. You'll probably want to start with the installation and configuration documentation.

Basic configuration

Once you've got mod_wsgi installed and activated, edit your Apache server's httpd.conf file and add the following. Note, if you are using a version of Apache older than 2.4, replace Require all granted with Allow from all and also add the line Order deny,allow preceding to it.

WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/mysite.com/mysite/wsgi.py 
WSGIPythonPath /path/to/mysite.com 
 
<Directory /path/to/mysite.com/mysite...