Deploying LFS with FCGI

[Nicole Mattson]

My hosting company uses FCGI for Django deployments, which I know is not optimal (and will be removed in Django 1.9).  I would still like to be able to deploy LFS with them if at all possible.  I have been able to get a standard Django deployment to work on their shared hosting here.  Here are their Django installation instructions: https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/developer-corner/python/installing-and-configuring-django-with-fastcgi-on-shared-hosting

However, every time I try to get LFS working, I get these errors:

WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param REQUEST_METHOD required by WSGI!

WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_NAME required by WSGI!

WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_PORT required by WSGI!

WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_PROTOCOL required by WSGI!

Before I can do step 6 of the LFS installation instructions (syncing the database) I run python application.fcgi to see if it's working, and it never does.

My virtualenv is called devstore, and I am trying to get it installed on a subdomain called dev-store. 

Here is my .htaccess file:

AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(media/.*)$ - [L]

RewriteRule ^(adminmedia/.*)$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(cgi-bin/application.fcgi)

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cgi-bin/application.fcgi/$1 [L]

And here is my application.fcgi file:

#!/home/tentsand/devstore/bin/python

# Set up the virtual environment:

import os, sys

os.environ.setdefault('PATH', '/bin:/usr/bin')

os.environ['PATH'] = '/home/tentsand/devstore/bin:' + os.environ['PATH']

os.environ['VIRTUAL_ENV'] = '/home/tentsand/devstore/bin'

os.environ['PYTHON_EGG_CACHE'] = '/home/tentsand/devstore/bin'

os.chdir('/home/tentsand/public_html/dev-store/lfs-installer')

# Add a custom Python path.

sys.path.insert(0, "/home/tentsand/public_html/dev-store/lfs-installer")

# Set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable to the file in the

# application directory with the db settings etc.

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = "lfs_project.settings"

from django.core.servers.fastcgi import runfastcgi

runfastcgi(method="threaded", daemonize="false") 

Can anybody see what I'm doing wrong here?  I have tried changing my paths to a few different things, and this gets me the closest to working.  Anything else returns a "lfs_project.settings not found" error.

Thanks! 

[Noe Nieto]

Is there any error? If not, what is it doing and what it should do?

Have you looked at apache's access log and error log?

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[Nicole Mattson]

I get those WSGI errors when I run python application.fcgi, and then when I browse to the URL either it can't find the urls.py file or it can't connect to the database, depending on what I have in my application.fcgi file.

The error log is empty.  The access log doesn't have anything but my GET requests in it.

[Nicole Mattson]

I should add--I am getting a 500 error when I run python application.fcgi, along with the WSGI errors.

[Noe Nieto]

Is mod_wsgi installed on you server?

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[Nicole Mattson]

It's a shared hosting environment, so I'm not sure how to check that, but when I install a basic Django instance, that works fine with no errors.