Question

I’ve set up a django website as described in the django docs: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modwsgi/

Now I want to setup another version of the site (different source dir, different database) to run on the same server. There are active users and flex apps who use app #1, so I want to keep app #1 access unchanged. I also rather not change the urls.py at all even for app #2.

I was thinking of different port for app #2

For example
http://192.168.1.1/load_book/123/ will load book from app #1
http://192.168.1.1:444/load_book/123/ will load book from app #2

I’m a complete noob to Apache and WSGI… how do I set it up?

Answer 1

You can attatch the wsgi application to different sub-paths under the same domain. If you do this the paths to the views inside Django will still be the same. You do not have to modify the urls.py. In the following example Django will regard /site1 as the root of project1.

Check out http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/InstallationInstructions for documentation on mod_wsgi.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.example.com

    WSGIDaemonProcess example
    WSGIProcessGroup example
    WSGIScriptAlias /site1 /home/django/project1/deploy/wsgi.py
    <Directory /home/django/project1/deploy>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    WSGIScriptAlias /site2 /home/django/project2/deploy/wsgi.py
    <Directory /home/django/project2/deploy>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Now the two sites will run in the same daemon process using different python sub-interpreters.