Question

I would like to deplay a django application/project, which i have created within Aptana. It is a simple hello world. I can run the application locally and everything works fine, but how to deploy it to a webserver. The deploy button is grey and not working in the PyDev Perspective.
If i switch to perspective “Web Perspective” i can download(check out from a specific path with password) django applications from a webserver, edit files, and upload again. I would like to use the functionality from the web perspective in my pydev perspective where i write my django code.

But when i create my own django project, the button deploy is grey.

Answer 1

This is now my solution to deploy django 1.3 with aptana to Apache Server:

https://i.stack.imgur.com/wHiME.jpg

• Start Aptana, select PyDev Perspective (right corner) and just create a simple Django Project
• Create a views.py ane a method index()

def index(request):
return HttpResponse("Hello world")

• Edit your urls.py so that django can find the method index()
• Run Sync DB (rightclick your project in PyDev Package Explorer, at bottom click Django, and click Sync DB). I am using here a local sqlite3 db
• if everything work,s you will see within Aptana Console: Finished “/home/xy/workspace/test1/test1/manage.py syncdb” execution.
• Now Run local your django app: rightclick your project on left side of aptana (PyDev Package Explorer) somewhere in the middle you can see RUN AS: 1 PyDev:Django
• Now open your browser: http://127.0.0.1:8000/index or http://127.0.0.1:8000
• U see now your “Hello World”

If this worked, now lets deploy to apache:

• switch to Web Perspective (right corner of Aptana)
• switch to App Explorer (left side of Aptana) IMPORTANT!!!!!
• there is a little dropdown menu: select there your application (e.g. test1), BUT do not select any of the packages or modules inside of your project!!
• you will see now your app and nothing is selected/clicked=> you see also a little box above!
• click it and Run Web Deployment Wizard!!! if anything in your package is selected, you will not see “Run Web Deployment Wizard”…. (strange)
• Select SFTP Protocol; Fill out form
• Remote Path: before you can select the directory you want to have your app uploaded, you should create it on the server
• After you have selected the directory where you want to have your app deployed to server (ubuntu) you can again click on the little box and select deploy app
• Now you get a new window SYNCHRONIZE
• Your data/app have been now uploaded to server in the chosen directory
• I use wsgi so i have to edit 2 files
• the first one is a file called test1.wsgi in the wsgi directory

import os

import sys

path = “/home/username/”

if path not in sys.path:
sys.path.append(path)

path = “/home/username/somedirectory/test1/test1/”

if path not in sys.path:
sys.path.append(path)

os.environ[‘DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE’] = ‘settings’

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

• now go as sudo -s to cd /etc/apache2/conf.d/
• create a file test1
• write

WSGIScriptAlias /rofltest /home/username/wsgi/test1.wsgi

• /rofltest means http://www.youraddress.org/rofltest will be the url

• /home/username/wsgi/test1.wsgi means where to look for a file which will tell where to look for your django app on the server

• restart apache (/etc/init.d/apache2 restart) and browse to http://www.youraddress.org//rofltest/index

• You see Hello World or an error because you have to adjust the paths.
• Start with settings.py and edit ROOT_URLCONF = ‘test1.urls’ maybe just to ‘urls’
• now it works 🙂

Try it, if it fails, write a comment and maybe i read it and help. If this helped, upvote it.