Hi,

Been struggling with setting up web server on my CentOS 5.5 install on a VirtualBox VM. to serve up django for a while - having limited success adn would appreciate any help I can get. I followed the sets at http://www.freshblurbs.com/tutorial-...1-1-centos-5-4. But the website did not materialize.

Now, after futzing around with it for over 3 days, I think I am close.
I have apache, python and django all set up and ready to do.

However, when I try to start up my httpd service it fails..

My server name (on my home network) is Io.

Here is what I have now:
/etc/httpd/conf.d/io.conf
-------
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName io
ErrorLog /opt/web/django/iproj/logs/error_log
CustomLog /opt/web/django/iproj/logs/access_log combined
UseCanonicalName Off
Alias /admin_media /opt/python2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media
Alias /static /opt/web/django/iproj/static
WSGIScriptAlias / /opt/web/django/iproj.wsgi
#WSGIDaemonProcess iproj processes=7 threads=1 user=apache group=apache
#WSGIDaemonProcess iproj processes=7 threads=1 display-name=%{GROUP}
</VirtualHost>
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The last two line - WSGIDaemon... are commeneted out because I have a the following in my httpd.conf:
LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so

When i try to start the httpd service all I get is:
service httpd start
Starting httpd: [FAILED]

The log file (/etc/httpd/logs/error_log) shows the following:
(13)Permission denied: httpd: could not open error log file /opt/web/django/iproj/logs/error_log.
Unable to open logs

when I check the error_log file I get the following:
ll /opt/web/django/iproj/error_log
-rw-rw-rw- 1 apache staff 3 Nov 20 15:46 /opt/web/django/iproj/error_log

Any ideas? Help!!!

thanks,
Jas

Looks like a permissions problem and since you're running Centos it's most likely SELinux that prevents writing logs in the above directory.
You can change the path to /var/log/httpd/django.log where apache has write sccess and see if it works.

Regards

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That was it. I disabled selinux and it all worked!

thanks,
jas