Question

I have a django application set up using mainly the admin interface with a few of my own views. Everything is working corrctly on the devlopment server on my local machine.

However on the production server, using Apache, and mod_wsgi, it is messing up the URLs when I issue a redirect statement in one of my views. Instead of going to

     www.hostname.com/wsgi/django/admin/myapp/myform.html

it goes to

     www.hostname.com/admin/myapp/myform.html

Apache doesn’t recognise anything under an admin folder, so I get an error.

So in my apache configuration I have the following, so that anything under wsgi/django gets sent to my app:

WSGIScriptAlias /wsgi/django /project/production/public/wsgi/django_eclipse/myapp.wsgi

In my problematic view I have the following:

return redirect('/admin/sequencing/load_flowcell?' + params )      

I can make this work, if I change the redirect to include the ‘/wsgi/django’ part, but this means I can’t keep the one on my development server the same. Is there a way in Django settings, or http.conf to set this so that my redirect automatically includes this part of the URL?

Answer 1

EDIT: REAL FIX

from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse, get_script_prefix
....
#only of you absolutely HAVE to have a hardcoded url
return redirect(get_script_prefix()+'admin/sequencing/load_flowcell?'+params )
#better!
return redirect(reverse('admin:index')+sequencing/load_flowcell?'+params )

CAVEAT:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modpython/#basic-configuration

<Location "/mysite/">
    SetHandler python-program
    PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite.settings
    PythonOption django.root /mysite     <---- Make sure you have this
    PythonDebug On
</Location>