In this tutorial I will show you how to setup a Python Django application that starts by passenger whenever someone visits the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this example we’ll use the main domain, site.tld but you can use a subdomain if you prefer that. The important part is that the structure is correct. Passenger will expect to find the document root in \/public and the site files in \/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For this step we’ll want to head on over to the terminal. You may access it via Dev > Terminal<\/strong> or via SSH by using the login details sent to you in the “Get started with your web host” email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once there we’ll first create the correct document root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First find out what python version you’d like to use. In my case I chose 3.10<\/strong> but you can choose any version you like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Run the following command to install the python version<\/p>\n\n\n\n It can take a few minutes for it to compile and install python.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First navigate one level below the document root of your site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Next specify the python version you’d like to use<\/p>\n\n\n\n To install django run the following command<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now when Django is installed lets create a test application to make sure everything works fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After this let’s create an admin account<\/p>\n\n\n\n Make sure to save the username and password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After this we need to edit the settings.py file to add the domain to the allow<\/p>\n\n\n\n Open myproject\/settings.py<\/strong> with an editor of your choice and make sure that ALLOWED_HOSTS = [] contains something like this<\/p>\n\n\n\n Great now we’re done! While you can start Django directly at a port that’s allocated to your account with python3 manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:41411 command, it’s best to setup passenger. This is because if the server should restart or something else happens you don’t have to keep on starting the Django server all the time, passenger does that for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Create a Passenger startup file to run Django as a Python WSGI application: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Edit the file with the editor of your choice and make sure it has the following content:<\/p>\n\n\n\n If the project name is different from myproject make sure to replace it to match your project name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The last thing to do is to create the .htaccess file that will start passenger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n First navigate to your document root and create a file called .htaccess<\/p>\n\n\n\n Next edit the file with the editor of your choice and make sure it has the following content:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The last thing to do is delete the template index.html file that was generated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s it. We’re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this tutorial I will show you how to setup a Python Django application that starts by passenger whenever someone visits the site. Step 1: Setup document root In this example we’ll use the main domain, site.tld but you can use a subdomain if you prefer that. The important part is that the structure is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostup.se\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostup.se\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostup.se\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostup.se\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostup.se\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hostup.se\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/hostup.se\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostup.se\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostup.se\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostup.se\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}cd \/var\/www && mv html html-django && mkdir html-django\/public && ln -s html-django\/public html<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Step 2: Install a python version of your choice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
pyenv install 3.10<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Step 3: Create all the necessary files.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
cd \/var\/www\/html-django<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
pyenv local 3.10<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Step 4: Install Django and create the passenger file<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
pip3 install django<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
django-admin startproject myproject .<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
python3 manage.py migrate<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
python3 manage.py createsuperuser<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['site.tld']<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\ntouch passenger_wsgi.py<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
import myproject.wsgi\napplication = myproject.wsgi.application<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nStep 5: Create the .htaccess file to start passenger<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
cd \/var\/www\/html-django\/public && touch .htaccess<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
PassengerAppRoot \/var\/www\/html-django\nPassengerPython \/usr\/local\/share\/python\/pyenv\/shims\/python\nPassengerEnabled on<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nrm \/var\/www\/html-django\/public\/index.html<\/pre>\n\n\n\n