Django Help! Linode Stack Install Script, NOW WHAT?!

Ran all commands under sudo as well as my unprivileged user

Your PYTHONPATH is probably missing the path to django, it appears the stack script you used stores sites in virtualenvs inside /srv so if you cd /srv/[your project name] then run source bin/activate it should set up your python path properly.

@obs:

Your PYTHONPATH is probably missing the path to django, it appears the stack script you used stores sites in virtualenvs inside /srv so if you cd /srv/[your project name] then run source bin/activate it should set up your python path properly.

Hi Obs,

I'm unsure what your code source bin/activate is actually suppose to be… I understand that I'm not linking something correctly.

I've been trying to adapt this guide to my system unsucessfully.. http://felecan.com/2011/definitive-guid … go-ubuntu/">http://felecan.com/2011/definitive-guide-installing-django-ubuntu/

My structure of /srv is ..

/srv

-> website

-> -> app

-> -> -> webapp

init.py manage.py settings.py urls.py

And my /etc/apache2/sites-available/yozomo.com file looks like this…

 <virtualhost *:80="">ServerAdmin zobrakster@yahoo.com
    ServerName yozomo.com

    Alias /site_media/ /srv/website/app/webapp/site_media/
    Alias /media/ /srv/website/venv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/
    Alias /robots.txt /srv/website/app/webapp/site_media/robots.txt
    Alias /favicon.ico /srv/website/app/webapp/site_media/favicon.ico

    CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs /srv/website/logs/access.log.%Y%m%d-%H%M%S 5M" combined
    ErrorLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs /srv/website/logs/error.log.%Y%m%d-%H%M%S 5M"
    LogLevel warn

    WSGIDaemonProcess yozomo.com user=benjamin group=benjamin processes=1 threads=15 maximum-requests=10000 python-path=/srv/website/venv/lib/python2.6/site-packages python-eggs=/srv/website/run/eggs
    WSGIProcessGroup yozomo.com
    WSGIScriptAlias / /srv/website/app/conf/apache/django.wsgi

    <directory srv="" website="" app="" webapp="" site_media="">Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
        Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks</directory> 

    <directory srv="" website="" app="" conf="" apache="">Order deny,allow
        Allow from all</directory></virtualhost> 

It looks like the felecan.com guide doesn't use virtualenv (which is why it goes into all those weird steps to install Django), so it won't (directly) apply to this situation. (With virtualenv, the installation step would have consisted of "cd /home/", "virtualenv –no-site-packages venv", "source venv/bin/activate", "pip install Django", and finally "django-admin.py startproject website".)

You should have a script called 'activate' in /srv/$DJANGOPROJECTNAME/venv/bin/, where $DJANGOPROJECTNAME is the one set during StackScript deployment (default: myproject). Once you do "source /srv/$DJANGOPROJECTNAME/venv/bin/activate", a little (env) will appear in your prompt and then you should be able to "python manage.py startapp whiskey" from /srv/$DJANGOPROJECT_NAME, picking up the Django tutorial at that step.

Using virtualenv is highly recommended, though.

@hoopycat:

Once you do "source /srv/$DJANGOPROJECTNAME/venv/bin/activate", a little (env) will appear in your prompt and then you should be able to "python manage.py startapp whiskey" from /srv/$DJANGOPROJECTNAME

Yes yes, Thank you very much that was it. I missed the "activate" command. All is well now.

Thanks again!

Benjamin