Can't get Django to work

[J..]

I've followed the instructions here, but I just see the dispatch.wsgi file's source code, even though its permissions are set to 755. The project is just something simple to see if I could get it to work, and it runs fine locally. Have I done something wrong?

[Ashoat]

Try again now. Is it working?

[J..]

Yeah, it's working great. Thanks.

[J..]

Okay, sorry to bother you again, but urllib2.urlopen doesn't seem to be working in Django. If I put the following script in cgi-bin:

#!/usr/bin/python
print "Content-type:text/html\n"
from urllib2 import urlopen, URLError
out = ""
try:
    urlopen("http://google.com")
except URLError, e:
    print "<p>"+str(e.reason)+"</p>"
print "<p>done</p>"

The output is '<p>done</p>'. But if I use this in Django (views.py):

from django.shortcuts import HttpResponse
from urllib2 import urlopen, URLError

def sample (request):
    out = ""
    try:
        urlopen("http://google.com")
    except URLError, e:
        out += "<p>"+str(e.reason)+"</p>"
    out += "<p>done</p>"
    return HttpResponse(out)

The output is '<p>unable to select on socket</p><p>done</p>'.

 

Is there any reason this might be happening? These are located here and here respectively

[Ashoat]

Unfortunately, I barely know any Python. Here's what I can tell you: when you access Python through the cgi-bin method, it loads as CGI through Apache's mod_cgi. On the other hand, when you access Python through the Django method, it loads as WSGI through Apache's mod_wsgi. We only have one version of Python installed, but perhaps different Python eggs are preloaded for each system. Perhaps you should try manually added a Python egg for urlopen in your Django app? Also, try installing SnakeCharmer (looks like this) to check if urlopen is installed.

 

I would probably try to direct this question at a Python-specific forum. If they tell you that your host is at fault, make sure to ask them exactly what I need to do to fix the problem and I'll do my best to help.

[J..]

It's definitely there, it's just not working right through Django. Thanks anyway; I'll see what I can find out.

 

Wait, what do you mean, 'try installing SnakeCharmer'? What is it, and why would it help?