Question

I have a django application that uses an SQLite database. I use git to push the changes to my EC2 instance, which runs the website on an Elastic IP. The site itself works, but when I try to log in to the admin interface I get one of two errors from django:

attempt to write a readonly database

or

unable to open database file

It seems that chmod u+rw leads to the first error and a+rw leads to the second error, but I’m unsure of what is happening. The testserver on my local machine works as expected.

I realize that SQLite may be a bad choice for production, but the site will not have much traffic and I will be the only one using the admin interface or writing to the database. If someone has a solution for setting up MySQL or Postgres and somehow synchronizing the database contents, I would accept that too.

Answer 1

I found the solution after much research. I only defined one user in my EC2 server, but apparently Apache needs access as the user www-data.

sudo chown www-data /projectdir
sudo chown www-data /projectdir/sqlite.db