Question

I’m developing my first Django application, I have installed allauth to permit openid login.
I’m trying to use no-ip dns to avoid the problem of the dynamic ip, for register my app on facebook and testing from my machine. But I don’t know how to make my django test server visible from outside on port 80.
If I force it using sudo it gave me problems on logging to postgrel database, but if I not use sudo it says that I can’t use that port (also if apache is off).

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

One way is to create virtual host in apache, which will use mod_wsgi to talk to a Django app.

Example:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName xxx.xxx.com
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

    WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/xxx/apache/xxx.wsgi
    Alias /static/ /var/www/xxx/static/

    DocumentRoot /var/www/xxx
    LogLevel info

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

Contents of xxx.wsgi:

import os, sys

apache_configuration = os.path.dirname(__file__)
project = os.path.dirname(apache_configuration)
workspace = os.path.dirname(project)
sys.path.append(workspace)
sys.path.append('/var/www/xxx')

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

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