How do I host a django and a non-django site on my local development server?

Question

I have apache set up on my local machine to serve some django projects. I am trying to develop another site that is not a django site. When I try to look at the non-django site, apache tries to interpret its url through django, and gives an error that the url does not match any patterns in urls.py.

I can see the non-django site by commenting out the django-specific parts of httpd.conf and restarting apache. But I know there is a way to tell apache not to try to interpret certain urls through django, or to only interpret certain urls through django.

I think the relevant parts of my setup are:

• All django projects are in /srv/python-environments/env_name/django_project_name
• All non-django sites are in /var/www/site_name

• The non-django sites consist of static html files, a wordpress blog, and a few simple (non-django) python scripts.

• I think I have set up all localhost urls to be interpreted as django urls through this line in httpd.conf, but I can't figure out how to change it:

  WSGIScriptAlias / /srv/python-environments/phs_comp_env/phs_competencies/apache/django.wsgi

• I am running ubuntu 10.04, apache 2.2, django through mod_wsgi.

What do I need to change, or what other information do I need to provide?

For the record, this is what worked. I placed the non-django site configuration before the django site configuration:

Alias /non-django_site/ /var/www/non-django_site/
<Directory /var/www/non-django_site>
Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .py
</Directory> 

Answer 1

You don't provide enough information about the other non Python web application. One can only guess you are talking about PHP. Read:

http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ConfigurationGuidelines#The_Apache_Alias_Directive

Use the AddHandler method of mapping WSGI application and especially the solution towards the end of that section of the documentation.