For development purposes, you can simply use the Python built-in web server. In fact, after creating a Django project, a script is provided for that purpose. Simply change to the directory containing your Django project and run the following command:
python manage.py runserver <port>
This is not suitable for a production site, however. Accordingly, for the purposes of this book, we have configured the Apache web server installed in the demonstration Docker container so that it uses mod_wsgi to serve files from the Django project. You can find the Django documentation on the installation and configuration of mod_wsgi here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/#how-to-use-django-with-apache-and-mod-wsgi
In order to contain the required directives in a single location, we created a separate configuration file called booksomeplace.local.conf that defines an Apache virtual host that matches our hosts file entry, as discussed...