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All right, I'll post as much as I can here, step by step. DISCLAIMER: this is how I succeeded, no doubt there are way better solutions around (e.g. place config files in the correct directories), but this is the simplest configuration and the only one that just worked for me so far. In order to test a simple django application, try the following: 1. create a file named dispatch.wsgi in your public_html folder (/home/username/public_html), containing exactly the following (taken from the WSGI quick conf guide) def application(environ, start_response): status = '200 OK' output = 'Hello World!' response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain'), ('Content-Length', str(len(output)))] start_response(status, response_headers) return [output] 2. give permissions 755 to this file 3. edit (do not replace!) the file named .htaccess in your public_html folder and append the following RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^(dispatch\.wsgi/.*)$ - [L] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.wsgi/$1 [QSA,PT,L] 4. give permissions 644 to this file 5. fire up your website, any address you type before the / should yeld "Hello World!" as response. If it doesn't, you did something wrong, or I wrote something wrong here. In which case, let me know.

I don't know if this may be of any interest to you, but I managed to run a django-based website on heliohost last week (still running). I followed the django tutorial with some adjustements.

what url are you logging in from? the following steps work for me: 1. head to http://www.heliohost.org:2082/login/ 2. press "cancel" when the popup message prompting for usename and password shows up 3. the browser should load the login form page: enter username and password there 4. press submit and enjoy your cpanel hope it helps. edit: also, are you behind a firewall? Are you trying to log in from your workspaces? Some firewalls might block port 2082.

I managed to run everything but the django admin. I will eventually post what I did in case someone else needs it.

Still messing around, now with the wsgi dispatcher: I managed to get the dispatcher to output errors to the browser by doing this: import os, sys sys.path.append("/home/gcatania/public_html"); sys.path.append("/home/gcatania/public_html/wedsite"); os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'wedsite.settings' os.environ['PYTHON_EGG_CACHE'] = '/home/gcatania/.python_egg_cache' import django.core.handlers.wsgi _application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler() def application(environ, start_response): environ['PATH_INFO'] = environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] + environ['PATH_INFO'] try: test = _application(environ, None) except Exception, e: test = str(e) status = '200 OK' response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain'), ('Content-Length', str(len(test)))] start_response(status, response_headers) return [test] Here's what I got: Can't extract file(s) to egg cache The following error occurred while trying to extract file(s) to the Python egg cache: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/gcatania/.python_egg_cache/pysqlite-2.5.0-py2.4-linux-x86_64.egg-tmp' The Python egg cache directory is currently set to: /home/gcatania/.python_egg_cache Perhaps your account does not have write access to this directory? You can change the cache directory by setting the PYTHON_EGG_CACHE environment variable to point to an accessible directory. Will work on the directory's permission now.

All right, I spent a couple more time around the forums and noticed the server admin (and proably the only person that can help me) was last seen around here more than one month ago. Anyway, I'm not giving up that easy, so here's what I came up with while trying to get as close as possible to the solution: 1) I noticed the dispatch.wsgi only seems to work when it's placed in public_html, so I placed it there. 2) I made some adjustments and tested with the suggested debug wsgi script from the WSGI quick config guide: def application(environ, start_response): status = '200 OK' output = 'Hello World!' response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain'), ('Content-Length', str(len(output)))] start_response(status, response_headers) return [output] I also modified my .htaccess in public_html so that every non-static url maps to the wsgi script. Here it is: # -FrontPage- AuthUserFile /home/gcatania/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd AuthGroupFile /home/gcatania/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp <Limit GET POST> order deny,allow deny from all allow from all </Limit> <Limit PUT DELETE> order deny,allow deny from all </Limit> AuthName ceciliaegabriele.heliohost.org IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti* RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^(media/.*)$ - [L] RewriteRule ^(admin_media/.*)$ - [L] RewriteRule ^(dispatch\.wsgi/.*)$ - [L] RewriteRule ^img/(.*)$ /static/img/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^layout/(.*)$ /static/layout/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^js/(.*)$ /static/js/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.wsgi/$1 [QSA,PT,L] Now every url maps to my dispatcher.wsgi that just outputs the string "wip!!", and the "only" step left is to make Django work. I also managed to obtain the environment contents: { 'REDIRECT_UNIQUE_ID': 'Swb2LEETjwIAADZqs2wAAAAj', 'mod_wsgi.listener_port': '80', 'HTTP_COOKIE': '__utma=149771567.3713108818195957000.1249680808.1258682284.1258742175.10; __utmz=149771567.1258742175.10.3.utmcsr=google|utmccn=(organic)|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=heliohost%20environ; __utmc=149771567', 'mod_wsgi.listener_host': '0.0.0.0', 'REDIRECT_STATUS': '200', 'SERVER_SOFTWARE': 'Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_wsgi/3.0c3 Python/2.4.3 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635', 'SCRIPT_NAME': '/dispatch.wsgi', 'mod_wsgi.handler_script': '', 'SERVER_SIGNATURE': '<address>Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_wsgi/3.0c3 Python/2.4.3 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at ceciliaegabriele.heliohost.org Port 80</address>\n', 'REQUEST_METHOD': 'GET', 'HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE': '300', 'REDIRECT_URL': '/', 'SERVER_PROTOCOL': 'HTTP/1.1', 'QUERY_STRING': '', 'PATH': '/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7', 'HTTP_USER_AGENT': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.15) Gecko/2009101601 Firefox/3.0.15 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)', 'HTTP_CONNECTION': 'keep-alive', 'SERVER_NAME': 'ceciliaegabriele.heliohost.org', 'REMOTE_ADDR': '94.36.111.88', 'mod_wsgi.request_handler': 'wsgi-script', 'wsgi.url_scheme': 'http', 'PATH_TRANSLATED': 'redirect:/dispatch.wsgi/', 'SERVER_PORT': '80', 'wsgi.multiprocess': True, 'mod_wsgi.input_chunked': '0', 'SERVER_ADDR': '65.19.143.3', 'DOCUMENT_ROOT': '/home/gcatania/public_html', 'mod_wsgi.process_group': '', 'SCRIPT_FILENAME': '/home/gcatania/public_html/dispatch.wsgi', 'SERVER_ADMIN': 'webmaster@ceciliaegabriele.heliohost.org', 'wsgi.input': <mod_wsgi.Input object at 0x2b249d8a0fb0>, 'HTTP_HOST': 'ceciliaegabriele.heliohost.org', 'wsgi.multithread': False, 'mod_wsgi.callable_object': 'application', 'HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL': 'max-age=0', 'REQUEST_URI': '/', 'HTTP_ACCEPT': 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8', 'wsgi.version': (1, 0), 'GATEWAY_INTERFACE': 'CGI/1.1', 'wsgi.run_once': False, 'wsgi.errors': <mod_wsgi.Log object at 0x2b249bf21570>, 'REMOTE_PORT': '50527', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE': 'en-us,en;q=0.5', 'mod_wsgi.version': (3, 0), 'mod_wsgi.application_group': 'ceciliaegabriele.heliohost.org|/dispatch.wsgi', 'mod_wsgi.script_reloading': '1', 'wsgi.file_wrapper': <built-in method file_wrapper of mod_wsgi.Adapter object at 0x2b249d8b1918>, 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip,deflate', 'UNIQUE_ID': 'Swb2LEETjwIAADZqs2wAAAAj', 'PATH_INFO': '/dispatch.wsgi/' } Help / hints / comments / rants appreciated.

Hello, sorry to bother you admins/forum members, but I'm having problem with the setup of a django application I just uploaded. I followed the steps here, handled all chmod's, etc. The only stuff I did differently is placing the .htaccess directly inside public_html instead of in the django app subfolder, and added some rewrites for static content. my cpanel name: gcatania site name: ceciliaegabriele.heliohost.org This is my .htaccess with path /home/gcatania/public_html/.htaccess: # -FrontPage- AuthUserFile /home/gcatania/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd AuthGroupFile /home/gcatania/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp <Limit GET POST> order deny,allow deny from all allow from all </Limit> <Limit PUT DELETE> order deny,allow deny from all </Limit> AuthName ceciliaegabriele.heliohost.org IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti* RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^(media/.*)$ - [L] RewriteRule ^(admin_media/.*)$ - [L] RewriteRule ^(dispatch\.wsgi/.*)$ - [L] RewriteRule ^img/(.*)$ /static/img/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^layout/(.*)$ /static/layout/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^js/(.*)$ /static/js/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ wedsite/dispatch.wsgi/$1 [QSA,PT,L] the strange thing is, when I remove that last line, at least static content is served correctly. With that last line, i get a status 500 even on urls that should serve static content (e.g. http://www.ceciliaegabriele.heliohost.org/img/wip1.png ) here is my dispatch.wsgi with path /home/gcatania/public_html/wedsite/dispatch.wsgi import os, sys sys.path.append("/home/gcatania/public_html/wedsite"); os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'settings' os.environ['PYTHON_EGG_CACHE'] = '/home/gcatania/.python_egg_cache' import django.core.handlers.wsgi _application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler() def application(environ, start_response): environ['PATH_INFO'] = environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] + environ['PATH_INFO'] return _application(environ, start_response) django app is in /home/gcatania/public_html/wedsite I checked the cpanel error log and it only shows a couple lines about a 404.html missing. I pulled an all-nighter trying to make it work, but with no success. Tried switching mysql settings with the sqlite3 I'm using for development, but the error does not come from there. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you very much for your time...