Configuring Mezzanine for Apache server & mod_wsgi in AWS

Install [Mezzanine]({% post_url 2015-05-01-how-to-install-mezzanine-on-ubuntulinux-mint %}), [Apache server]({% post_url 2015-05-08-getting-started-with-your-aws-instance-and %}) and mod_wsgi:

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
sudo a2enmod wsgi

Set up a MySQL database for your Mezzanine project

Read [my post on how to set up a MySQL database for a Mezzanine project]({% post_url 2015-05-09-how-to-set-up-a-mysql-database-for-a-mezzanine %})

Collect static files:

python manage.py collectstatic

Configure your Apache server configuration for the project like following:

WSGIPythonPath /home/ubuntu/www/mezzanine-project

<VirtualHost *:80>
    #ServerName example.com
    ServerAdmin admin@example.com
    DocumentRoot /home/ubuntu/www/mezzanine-project
    WSGIScriptAlias / /home/ubuntu/www/mezzanine-project/wsgi.py
    Alias /static /home/ubuntu/www/mezzanine-project/static/

    <Directory /home/ubuntu/www/mezzanine-project>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Note: Replace mezzanine-project with the name of your project

Configure wsgi.py (I don’t know why but it needs this fix - complete script):

 1from __future__ import unicode_literals
 2import os
 3import sys
 4
 5PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
 6sys.path.append(os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, ".."))
 7settings_module = "%s.settings" % PROJECT_ROOT.split(os.sep)[-1]
 8os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = settings_module
 9
10from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
11application = get_wsgi_application()

Enable the site and restart the server:

sudo a2ensite mezzanine-project.conf
sudo service apache2 restart

Now, when you navigate to your AWS public DNS, your Mezzanine project should be running.

Source: Vimmaniac

• python
• django
• mezzanine
• mysql
• apache
• wsgi
• aws
• amazon