Deploying A Django Application in Windows With Apache and Mod - Wsgi

C:\Users\Admin\Envs\entorno_pacs\Scripts
LoadFile "c:/users/admin/appdata/local/programs/python/python38/python38.dll"
LoadModule wsgi_module "c:/users/admin/appdata/local/programs/python/python38/lib/site-

packages/mod_wsgi/server/mod_wsgi.cp38-win_amd64.pyd"
WSGIPythonHome "c:/users/admin/appdata/local/programs/python/python38"
Deploying a Django application in

Windows with Apache and mod_wsgi
Published Apr 29, 2019Last updated Oct 25, 2019
Django is a powerful web framework widely used by many famous

applications. Django includes a simplified development server for testing
your code locally, but for anything even slightly production related, a
more secure and powerful web server is required.
In this guide, we will demonstrate how to install and configure some

components on a Windows server to support and serve Django
applications. We will be setting up a MySQL database instead of using
the default SQLite database. We will configure mod_wsgi to interface
with our applications, and set up Apache to act as the gateway to the
world.
Python
The first step is to download and install Python from the Python website.
Select Windows as operating system and pick the 32 / 64 bit version
based on your machine requirements.
Once you download the setup file, right click the setup file and select Run
as Administrator. You should see the below screen
Make sure both the checboxes at the bottom of the window are checked
(Install for all users, and Add Python 3.7 to PATH checkboxes)
Click on Install Now. Once the installation is completed, you can close
the window. To make sure the installation is successful, open
Powershell and type python. If the installation was successful, you
should see an output similar to below
MySQL
The next step is the installation of MySQL. Before installation of MySQL,

Visual Studio and the Visual C++ libraries have to be installed.
Download Visual Studio 2017 from here. When installing Visual Studio,

make sure you select Desktop Environment with C++ on Workloads
section, and the C++/CLI Support option on the right side of the screen.
Download the latest Visual C++ from here and install it. Download the
latest version of MySQL. Run the downloaded setup file. The first screen
should look like this:
Click on I accept the license terms and click Next
In the type of installation, choose Developer Default

In the requirements section, click Next. Then click on execute. Once all
the items in the list are installed, you will then be taken to the
configuration pages. In the Type and Networking page, choose Config
Type as Server Computer
In the next screen, setup the root user's password. And in the users
section, add a user with the name as same as the logged in user. Click
on Next till the end and click Exceute at last. In the next 2 configuration
steps, nothing needs to be changed and so you can click on
Next/Execute.
Once the installation is complete, create a new database

called my_application and provide all privileges of the same to the new
user created.
mysql> create database my_application;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.04 sec)
mysql> grant all on my_application.* to '<my-user>'@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.08 sec)
virtualenv
A virtual environment is a tool that helps to keep dependencies required

by different projects separate by creating isolated python virtual
environments for them. To install virtualenv, open powershell and run
pip install virtualenvwrapper-win

This will install the virtualenv package. In order to create a virtual
environment and to start working on the virtual environment, run
mkvirtualenv my_application
workon my_application
Install Django
Install Django and mysql connector using pip with the following

command
pip install django
pip install pymysql
Create Django application
Next, let's create a sample Django project. Type the following command
in the powershell window.
django-admin startproject my_application
Once that command is executed, you should see a folder

called my_application in the current folder and the my_application will
have the following structure
my_application
| manage.py
|
\---my_application
settings.py
urls.py
wsgi.py
__init__.py
Now let's run the server and check that it can be accessed from the
browser
cd my_application
python manage.py runserver
Once the server starts running, you should see a similar output in your
powershell terminal
PS C:\Users\myuser\my_application> python .\manage.py runserver
Performing system checks...
System check identified no issues (0 silenced).

You have 15 unapplied migration(s). Your project may not work
properly until you apply the migrations for app(s): admin, auth,
contenttypes, sessions.
Run 'python manage.py migrate' to apply them.
April 29, 2019 - 06:15:40
Django version 2.1.5, using settings 'my_application.settings'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.
Now let's access the server from the browser. Go to the URL
- http://127.0.0.1:8000/ from your browser and you should see the
following screen
Now you can stop the server by pressing Ctrl + C in the powershell
terminal.
Local setup
Next step is to provide the appropriate DB settings, e.t.c for the Django
application. Open your my_application/settings.py file and replace the
DATABASES variable to the following:
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
'NAME': 'my_application',
'USER': '<my-user>',
'PASSWORD': '<my-password>',
'HOST': 'localhost',
'PORT': 3306
In production environment, Django does not serve static files (css, js and
images). Inorder for them to be server properly by Apache, let's
configure the staticfile settings in the application. Add the following at the
end of your my_application/settings.py file
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
Once the details are entered, create the database tables, and collect the
staticfiles by running
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py collectstatic
After collectstatic, you should see a static folder created in your base

folder. The current structure will be this
my_application
+---my_application
| \---__pycache__
\---static
\---admin
+---css
| \---vendor
| \---select2
+---fonts
+---img
| \---gis
\---js
+---admin
\---vendor
+---jquery
+---select2
| \---i18n
\---xregexp
Apache
Apache is the webserver that will be handling web requests, and

communicating to the Django app using mod_wsgi. Download WAMP
server from here. The default installation should have created a folder in
C:, as C:\wamp64
Once you verify that the above folder is created, add an Environment
variable in your machine with name MOD_WSGI_APACHE_ROOTDIR whose
value should be C:\wamp64\bin\apache\apache<version>\.
You will need to restart the powershell window for this change to take
effect.
wsgi.py
The default wsgi.py generated by Django works properly for LINUX

based deployments, but for Windows we need to make a few changes to
the file. Create a new file my_application/wsgi_windows.py and paste
the following contents in the file:
activate_this =
'C:/Users/myuser/Envs/my_application/Scripts/activate_this.py'
# execfile(activate_this, dict(__file__=activate_this))
exec(open(activate_this).read(),dict(__file__=activate_this))
import os
import sys
import site
# Add the site-packages of the chosen virtualenv to work with
site.addsitedir('C:/Users/myuser/Envs/my_application/Lib/site-
packages')
# Add the app's directory to the PYTHONPATH
sys.path.append('C:/Users/myuser/my_application')
sys.path.append('C:/Users/myuser/my_application/my_application')
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'my_application.settings'
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE",
"my_application.settings")
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
application = get_wsgi_application()
mod_wsgi
Once WAMP is installed, go to the my_application folder in powershell

and install mod_wsgi by running
pip install mod_wsgi
To get the Apache configration to be set related to this project, run
mod_wsgi-express module-config
The output should be something similar to:
LoadFile
"c:/users/myuser/appdata/local/programs/python/python37/python37.
dll"
LoadModule wsgi_module
"c:/users/myuser/appdata/local/programs/python/python37/lib/site-
packages/mod_wsgi/serve
r/mod_wsgi.cp37-win_amd64.pyd"
WSGIPythonHome
"c:/users/myuser/appdata/local/programs/python/python37"
Copy the output generated by the mod_wsgi-express command and

paste it at the end
of C:\wamp64\bin\apache\apache<version>\conf\httpd.conf .
Next step is to open the vhosts file
at C:\wamp64\bin\apache\apache<version>\conf\extra\httpd_vhosts
.conf and replace the contents over there with the content below:
# virtual SupervisionTool
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
WSGIPassAuthorization On
ErrorLog "logs/my_application.error.log"
CustomLog "logs/my_application.access.log" combined
WSGIScriptAlias /
"C:\Users\myuser\my_application\my_application\wsgi_windows.py"
<Directory "C:\Users\myuser\my_application\my_application">
<Files wsgi_windows.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>
Alias /static "C:/Users/myuser/my_application/static"

<Directory "C:/Users/myuser/my_application/static">
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
# end virtual SupervisionTool
With this setup, you should now be able to go to the System Services
panel, start the Apache service and you should be able to access the
application at http://localhost

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LoadModule wsgi_module "c:/users/admin/appdata/local/programs/python/python38/lib/site-

Deploying a Django application in

Django is a powerful web framework widely used by many famous

In this guide, we will demonstrate how to install and configure some

The next step is the installation of MySQL. Before installation of MySQL,

Download Visual Studio 2017 from here. When installing Visual Studio,

In the type of installation, choose Developer Default

Once the installation is complete, create a new database

mysql> create database my_application;

Query OK, 1 row affected (0.04 sec)

mysql> grant all on my_application.* to '<my-user>'@'localhost';

Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.08 sec)

A virtual environment is a tool that helps to keep dependencies required

pip install virtualenvwrapper-win

Install Django and mysql connector using pip with the following

pip install django

pip install pymysql

Create Django application

django-admin startproject my_application

Once that command is executed, you should see a folder

python manage.py runserver

PS C:\Users\myuser\my_application> python .\manage.py runserver

Performing system checks...

System check identified no issues (0 silenced).

Run 'python manage.py migrate' to apply them.

April 29, 2019 - 06:15:40

Django version 2.1.5, using settings 'my_application.settings'

Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

python manage.py collectstatic

After collectstatic, you should see a static folder created in your base

Apache is the webserver that will be handling web requests, and

The default wsgi.py generated by Django works properly for LINUX

# Add the app's directory to the PYTHONPATH

from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application

Once WAMP is installed, go to the my_application folder in powershell

pip install mod_wsgi

To get the Apache configration to be set related to this project, run

The output should be something similar to:

Copy the output generated by the mod_wsgi-express command and

CustomLog "logs/my_application.access.log" combined

Require all granted

Alias /static "C:/Users/myuser/my_application/static"

Require all granted

# end virtual SupervisionTool

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