Django apache mod_wsgi permission denied

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Loai Ghoraba

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Nov 30, 2012, 7:00:55 PM11/30/12
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Hi 

I have installed apache and mod_wsgi and my basic site *skeleton is running* on local host, but with NO static files loaded such as css, when I try to access a static file (e.g:http://localhost/static/css/base.css) it says that I don't have permission to access the file, same goes to media files 

I have followed the steps in the presentation slides http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/downloads/detail?name=mod_wsgi-pycon-sydney-2010.pdf and made the directories accessible to others via chmod o+rx 
, my  httpd.conf part is :

WSGIScriptAlias / /home/loai/workspace/Faculty/Faculty/wsgi.py
WSGIPythonPath /home/loai/workspace/Faculty

Alias /media/ /home/loai/workspace/Faculty/Faculty/media
Alias /static/ /home/loai/workspace/Faculty/Faculty/static

<Directory /home/loai/workspace/Faculty/Faculty/static>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory /home/loai/workspace/Faculty/Faculty/media>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

Thanks

Chris Cogdon

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Make sure all the directories, from static leading all the way up to the root, are chmod a+x

Loai Ghoraba

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Nov 30, 2012, 11:48:38 PM11/30/12
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I have ran chmod o+rx on the root directory, isn't this enough (isn't chmod applied to all folders down recursively ?) ?

and I have checked the directories from the root down to static, all have the permission of drwxr-xr-x

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Mike Dewhirst

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On 1/12/2012 3:48pm, Loai Ghoraba wrote:
> I have ran chmod o+rx on the root directory, isn't this enough (isn't
> chmod applied to all folders down recursively ?) ?

No. You need chmod -R o+rx


>
> and I have checked the directories from the root down to static, all
> have the permission of drwxr-xr-x
>
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Chris Cogdon <ch...@cogdon.org
> <mailto:ch...@cogdon.org>> wrote:
>
> Make sure all the directories, from static leading all the way up to
> the root, are chmod a+x
>
>
> On Friday, November 30, 2012 4:00:55 PM UTC-8, Loai Ghoraba wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have installed apache and mod_wsgi and my basic site *skeleton
> is running* on local host, but with NO static files loaded such
> as css, when I try to access a static file
> (e.g:http://localhost/static/__css/base.css
> <http://localhost/static/css/base.css>) it says that I don't
> have permission to access the file, same goes to media files
>
> I have followed the steps in the presentation slides
> http://code.google.com/__p/modwsgi/downloads/detail?__name=mod_wsgi-pycon-sydney-__2010.pdf
> <http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/downloads/detail?name=mod_wsgi-pycon-sydney-2010.pdf> and
> made the directories accessible to others via chmod o+rx
> , my httpd.conf part is :
>
> WSGIScriptAlias / /home/loai/workspace/Faculty/__Faculty/wsgi.py
> WSGIPythonPath /home/loai/workspace/Faculty
>
> Alias /media/ /home/loai/workspace/Faculty/__Faculty/media
> Alias /static/ /home/loai/workspace/Faculty/__Faculty/static
>
> <Directory /home/loai/workspace/Faculty/__Faculty/static>
> Order deny,allow
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> <Directory /home/loai/workspace/Faculty/__Faculty/media>
> Order deny,allow
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> Thanks
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Loai Ghoraba

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Nov 30, 2012, 11:57:29 PM11/30/12
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thanks, but I have tried this now and it also doesn't work :X though the author slides presentation mentioned chmod o+rx on the root dir only.

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Mike Dewhirst <mi...@dewhirst.com.au> wrote:
chmod -R o+rx

Mike Dewhirst

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Here is my working apache2 conf for project "proj" on site mydomain.com.
It is running happily on Ubuntu 12.04 with permissions on all
/var/www/proj directories and files rwxrwx---

This is because I need users in the group to have access but no-one from
outside. Apache is the owner.

Good luck

Mike

# proj #########################################################

<VirtualHost *:80>

# proj resolves to lenny 109
DocumentRoot /var/www/proj/htdocs/
ServerName proj.mydomain.com
ServerAdmin webm...@mydomain.com

HostnameLookups Off
UseCanonicalName Off

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/proj-error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/proj-access.log combined

Alias /robots.txt /var/www/static/proj/robots/robots.txt
Alias /favicon.ico /var/www/static/proj/img/proj.ico

# lock the public out
<Directory /var/www/proj/>
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>

# serve uploaded media from here
<Directory /var/www/media/proj/>
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

# serve static stuff from here
<Directory /var/www/static/proj/>
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

<IfModule mod_alias.c>
Alias /media/ /var/www/media/proj/
Alias /static/ /var/www/static/proj/
Alias /tiny_mce/ /var/www/static/proj/js/tiny_mce/
Alias /jquery/ /var/www/static/proj/js/jquery/
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_wsgi.c>
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/proj/proj/proj.wsgi
<Directory /var/www/proj/proj/>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
</IfModule>

</VirtualHost>

Loai Ghoraba

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Dec 1, 2012, 12:42:33 AM12/1/12
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thanks, but still I can't find what's wrong with the permission thing. The html pages are loaded without static content, no css or js or whatever, neither the media is accessible.



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Loai Ghoraba

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Dec 1, 2012, 1:17:44 AM12/1/12
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a strange thing is that when I remove the <Files> </Files> directive so it becomes:

<Directory /home/loai/workspace/Faculty/Faculty>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

instead of 

<Directory /home/loai/workspace/Faculty/Faculty>
<Files wsgi.py>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Files>
</Directory>

then trying to access any static or media file raises (not found) instead of permission denied !

Loai Ghoraba

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Dec 1, 2012, 2:48:56 AM12/1/12
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okay it works now, I was just missing a trailing slash at
Alias /static/ /home/loai/workspace/Faculty/Faculty/static/

Chris Cogdon

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Dec 1, 2012, 4:14:30 AM12/1/12
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On Friday, November 30, 2012 8:53:42 PM UTC-8, Mike Dewhirst wrote:
On 1/12/2012 3:48pm, Loai Ghoraba wrote:
> I have ran chmod o+rx on the root directory, isn't this enough (isn't
> chmod applied to all folders down recursively ?) ?

No. You need chmod -R o+rx

Oh hell no, don't do that... that will impact the ENTIRE FILESYSTEM


Timothy Makobu

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Dec 1, 2012, 4:42:43 AM12/1/12
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Root directory??? As in / ? Nooo nononooooo


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Loai Ghoraba

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Dec 1, 2012, 6:47:39 AM12/1/12
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no I mean the root of my project guys :) thanks a lot :D which lives in path/to/my/project :)

Chris Cogdon

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On Saturday, December 1, 2012 3:47:39 AM UTC-8, Loai Ghoraba wrote:
no I mean the root of my project guys :) thanks a lot :D which lives in path/to/my/project :)

Oh thank god for that!

I'd actually done something similiar once... I'd removed a bunch of permissions using chmod -R /   rather than chmod -R . ... This was on an oldold NCR Tower 32 running SVR3. I ended up writing a program to go through the archives on tape (yes, tape) and copy only the permission bits from all the tape files.

Anyway, a better form of that command is chmod -R a+rX

The capital X means "only set the execute bit if any execute bits are set". If you use lower-case x, then you'll send up setting the execute bit for normal files, too, which is another potential security risk. If you want to fix this up, do:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a-x
chmod a+x manage.py # Restore x for the Django management command

Protip: always use the -print0 | xargs -0  form of the "find/xargs" pattern, as this will prevent spaces in your paths from causing havoc.

I wish I knew of a better way to set the x bits all the way up the tree, without giving someone a program to run, the best I can come up with is:

cd static
chmod a+x . .. ../.. ../../.. ../../../.. ../../../../.. ../../../../../.. ../../../../../../..

and hope that's enough :)


Loai Ghoraba

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Dec 2, 2012, 2:03:51 AM12/2/12
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Thanks a million for the tip :)

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Phang Mulianto

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THank for the config , i do able to run the apache22 with mod_wsgi + python 2.7 in windows server.
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