Janeway, Apache and WSGI

This guide is a brief look at setting up Janeway with Apache and mod_wsgi in the live environment:

Note: you should not run this installer as root and will have to give the apache www-data user access to your folders inc .virtualenvs

Note: janeway must be at the root of your domain in apache if using path based domains, not at a pathway itself ie:

janeway.example.com or example.com or testing.test.com

not

example.com/janeway/

sudo chown -R youruser:www-data /path/to/janeway/ && sudo adduser www-data youruser

Install apache and mod_wsgi:

`sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3`

Go the to sites-avaialble directory:

`cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/`

Add a new config file, you can call it whatever you want:

`nano 000-janeway.conf`

add the following:

<VirtualHost *:80> RewriteEngine on RewriteOptions Inherit

    Alias /media/ /path/to/janeway/src/media/
    <Directory /path/to/janeway/src/media>
            Require all granted
    </Directory>

    Alias /static/ /path/to/janeway/src/collected-static/
    <Directory /path/to/janeway/src/collected-static>
            Require all granted
    </Directory>

    WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
    WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/janeway/src/core/wsgi.py
    WSGIDaemonProcess janeway python-path=/path/to/.virtualenvs/janeway/lib/python3.5/site-packages
    <Location />
    WSGIProcessGroup janeway
    </Location>
    <Directory /path/to/janeway/src/>
            <Files wsgi.py>
                    Require all granted
            </Files>
    </Directory>

    # http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/InternalDummyConnection
    # disable logging of the "(internal dummy connection)" requests.
    # may be skewing traffic reported by logwatch.
    SetEnvIf Remote_Addr "127\.0\.0\.1" loopback
    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/janeway_error.log

    # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
    # alert, emerg.
    LogLevel warn
    CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/janeway.log vhost_combined env=!loopback

``` You may have to disable 000-default.conf as we want janeway.conf to be the default and pick up domains.

a2dissite 000-default

Then we need to edit the wsgi.py:

__copyright__ = "Copyright 2017 Birkbeck, University of London"
__author__ = "Martin Paul Eve & Andy Byers"
__license__ = "AGPL v3"
__maintainer__ = "Birkbeck Centre for Technology and Publishing"
"""
WSGI config for core project.

It exposes the WSGI callable as a module-level variable named ``application``.

For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/deployment/wsgi/
"""

import os
import sys

from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
sys.path.append('/path/to/janeway/src')
sys.path.append('/path/to/.virtualenvs/janeway/lib/python3.5/site-packages')
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "core.settings")

application = get_wsgi_application()

Restart apache with:

service apache2 restart