Deploy a django app to apache2 server

Deploying a django application to an apache server should be straight forward as there are quite alot of tutorials out there on how to do it, but as i found out it was not as straight forward.

here is a link to get you started. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-serve-django-applications-with-apache-and-mod_wsgi-on-ubuntu-14-04

once you have got your server setup, below is something to watch out for.

1)when you add your site to Apache's sites available make sure that the python version in the virtual environment on your production server matches what you used on your development server. you can check this by navigating to your virtual environment and typing in python to enter the shell where you should see your python version.

2) In your settings.py file make sure allowed_hosts is set as follows.

ALLOWED_HOSTS = [' * ' ]

here is an example of my apache config file setup for a live server

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName  yourapp.com
  ServerAdmin admin@yourapp.com


Alias /static  /var/www/yourapp/static_in_env/static_root
    <Directory /var/www/yourapp/src/static_in_env/static_root>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Directory>


WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/yourapp/src/yourapp/wsgi.py
WSGIDaemonProcess yourapp python-path= /var/www/yourapp/src:/var/www/yourapp/lib/python2.7/site-packages
WSGIProcessGroup yourapp

<Directory /var/www/yourapp/src/yourapp>
<Files wsgi.py>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Files>
</Directory>



</VirtualHost>

hope this helps someone else from not having to pull their hair out with a 500 server error!