Moving my Django projects from Webfaction will take a bit of work. ISPConfig has some nice options in the GUI for PHP but the Python option uses mod_python :(.
This will not be a complete guide but as usual some documentation for myself. It assumes that ISPConfig is already setup and working, there is an decent setup guide in docs/INSTALL_DEBIAN_6.0_courier_mydns.txt and some older but still useable docs here http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-debian-lenny-ispconfig3.
First you need to install some additional packages
apt-get install python-setuptools libapache2-mod-wsgi python-dev -y easy_install pip pip install virtualenv
Then you need to setup your site in ISPConfig and copy your Django project to it or start a new one. For simplicity we will just create a new one here
cd /var/www/mysite.com/ virtualenv myproject-env . /myproject-env/bin/activate pip install mysql-python pip install PIL pip install django django startproject myprojectThis will create a wsgi.py file in myproject/myproject/wsgi.py
Then in your ISPConfig Site go to Sites > Website > mysite.com > Options and in the Apache Directive add the following. Make sure to change the path to the correct absolute path.
Alias /media/ /var/www/clients/client0/web1/myproject/myproject/media/ Alias /static/ /var/www/clients/client0/web1/myproject/myproject/static/ Alias /robots.txt /var/www/clients/client0/web1/myproject/myproject/static/robots.txt Alias /favicon.ico /var/www/clients/client0/web1/myproject/myproject/static/images/favicon.ico WSGIDaemonProcess mysite.com user=web1 group=client0 python-path=/var/www/clients/client0/web1:/var/www/clients/client0/web1/myproject-env/lib/python2.6/site-packages WSGIProcessGroup mysite.com WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/clients/client0/web1/myproject/myproject/wsgi.py <Directory /var/www/clients/client0/web1/myproject> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory> <Directory /var/www/clients/client0/web1/myproject> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory> <Directory /var/www/clients/client0/web1/myproject> <Files wsgi.py> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Files> </Directory>This assumes that STATIC_URL STATIC_ROOT MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT are set to /static/ and /media/ in myproject/myproject
# Django settings for myproject project. import os # Add this near the top PROJECT_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path. dirname(__file__)) # Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/media/" MEDIA_ROOT = PROJECT_DIR + '/media' # URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a # trailing slash. # Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com/media/", "http://example.com/media/" MEDIA_URL = '/media/' # Absolute path to the directory static files should be collected to. # Don't put anything in this directory yourself; store your static files # in apps' "static/" subdirectories and in STATICFILES_DIRS. # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/static/" STATIC_ROOT = PROJECT_DIR + '/static' # URL prefix for static files. # Example: "http://media.lawrence.com/static/" STATIC_URL = '/static/' That should be it. Make sure that user web1 and group client0 are the owners of the correct directories and files and have exec permission.
