Question

Every url works fine in both Apache and django runserver except for urls (pointing to views, not real files) like this:

foo.js

urls.py:

url(r'^foo.js$', 'myapp.views.foo', name="foo"),

views.py:

def foo(request):
    return HttpResponse("foo")

In development server calling this url outputs me foo

In Apache with mod_wsgi, with the same url i get 404

wsgi conf file (really basic):

import os
import sys, logging

sys.stdout = sys.stderr

path = '/var/www/vhosts'
if path not in sys.path:
   sys.path.insert(0, path)
   sys.path.insert(0, path + '/myapp')

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'myapp.settings'

import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

Classic urls like /foo/ work as expected.

Where is the problem? Is it an apache behaviour that i don’t know / recognize? Is it Django routing?

edit:

After adding apache conf (thanks for the maybe obvious hint), i think that those AliasMatch on *.js are the problem.. i completely forgot them!

<VirtualHost *:80>
        DocumentRoot "/var/www/vhosts/myapp"
        ServerName www.myapp.local


    Alias /robots.txt  /var/www/vhosts/myapp/public/static/robots.txt
    Alias /favicon.ico /var/www/vhosts/myapp/public/static/favicon.ico

    AliasMatch ^/([^/]*\.css) /var/www/vhosts/myapp/public/static/$1
    AliasMatch ^/([^/]*\.js)  /var/www/vhosts/myapp/public/static/$1


    Alias /media/  /var/www/vhosts/myapp/public/media/
    Alias /static/ /var/www/vhosts/myapp/public/static/

    <Directory /var/www/vhosts/myapp>
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </Directory>

        WSGIDaemonProcess myapp.djangoserver processes=2 threads=15 display-name=%{GROUP}
        WSGIProcessGroup myapp.djangoserver

        WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/vhosts/myapp/apache/django.wsgi
LogLevel info
</VirtualHost>

Answer 1

Did you set up Apache to serve the directories set as MEDIA_ROOT and STATIC_ROOT at MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL, respectively? In development, Django serves the static media for you so you don’t need a full webserver stack, but in production, it’s up to you to serve the files.

UPDATE

Just remove the AliasMatch lines. They’re unnecessary if you’ve already set up Alias directives for both /media/ and /static/. All static resources will be in one of those two directories.

Also, don’t forget to run python manage.py collectstatic. Otherwise, the directory specified as STATIC_ROOT will be empty, which would obviously also result in 404s.