Apache2 cannot run WSGI script

Question

I'm installing Reviewboard on linux, I have copied the config provided by the install package to httpd.conf

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localhost
    DocumentRoot "/usr/www/reviewboard/htdocs"

    # Error handlers
    ErrorDocument 500 /errordocs/500.html

    WSGIPassAuthorization On
    WSGIScriptAlias "/reviewboard" "/usr/www/reviewboard/htdocs/reviewboard.wsgi/reviewboard"

    <Directory "/usr/www/reviewboard/htdocs">
            AllowOverride All
            Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks
            Allow from all
    </Directory>

    # Alias static media requests to filesystem
    Alias /reviewboard/media "/usr/www/reviewboard/htdocs/media"
    Alias /reviewboard/errordocs "/usr/www/reviewboard/htdocs/errordocs"
    Alias /reviewboard/favicon.ico "/usr/www/reviewboard/htdocs/media/rbcommons/images/favicon.png"
    </VirtualHost>

However, when I access "http://SITE/reviewboard/htdocs/reviewboard.wsgi", it just gives me the file in plain text instead of running the script

I have checked the mod_wsgi is running on apache2 by "apache2ctl -t -D DUMP_MODULES"

Did I miss any other configuration?

Answer 1

You should be using the URL:

http://SITE/reviewboard

and the WSGIScriptAlias directive should be:

WSGIScriptAlias "/reviewboard" "/usr/www/reviewboard/htdocs/reviewboard.wsgi"

Do be aware though that it is bad practice to be putting your whole Django site under DocumentRoot. That you are seeing the source code for the WSGI script file highlights why it is bad. That is, have an issue with your Apache configuration and you could expose all your source code for people to download. Especially bad if settings.py is in there and it contains database passwords.

Now, address those issues and update question with what you then have and what next problem is as I don't expect that to completely solve the problem because with those mistakes you should have got a different problem than what you describe, so suspect that your configuration is not even being used.