403 Forbidden error with Django and mod_wsgi

Question

I created Django project in home directory so it is in home directory.

Setup

Django Verison  : 1.5.1
Python Version  : 2.7.5
mod_wsgi Version: 3.4
Home Directory  : /home/aettool

Contents of /home/aettool/aet/apache/django.wsgi

import os
import sys
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'aet.settings'

import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

Contect of httpd.conf

WSGIScriptAlias / /home/aettool/aet/apache/django.wsgi

<Directory /home/aettool/aet/apache>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

Error in error_log

[Sun Jul 21 02:01:30.923364 2013] [authz_core:error] [pid 21540:tid 1193011520] [client 10.20.17.184:51340] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /home/aettool/aet/apache/django.wsgi

Contents of urls.py

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

Permissions of /home/aettool/aet : 775

Permissions of /home/aettool/aet/apache : 755

Permissions of django.wsgi file : 664

I am getting error on browser 403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Please help me out with the configuration .

EDIT

For now I am moving forward by changing

<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
</Directory>

to

<Directory />
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Directory>

So,this has definitely something to do with httpd.conf file configuration,but my worry is that I only added 5 lines in that file and not able to figure out what's wrong .

Solution 1

Apparently this is an issue that is related to Apache 2.4 and older versions. You need to replace in your apache configuration:

Allow from all

with

Require all granted

in the <Files wsgi.py> section

Solution 2

You can use the following:

<Directory /home/aettool/aet/apache>
  <IfVersion < 2.3 >
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
  </IfVersion>
  <IfVersion >= 2.3>
   Require all granted
  </IfVersion>
</Directory>

Solution 3

This has been reported in Django ticket 19319:

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/19319

Your Apache config now needs the following for your file wsgi.py.

<Directory /path/to/your/wsgi-script>
<Files wsgi.py>
  Order deny,allow
  Allow from all
  Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>

Solution 4

There is one other gotcha:

Check your httpd.conf file for the following configuration:

<IfModule mime_module>
      AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl .py
</IfModule>

This will cause the error.

.py MUST NOT be configured as a CGI script

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