Django/Mod_WSGI 'client denied by server configuration'

Question

I'm attempting to set up Apache 2.2, Django 1.1.2 and Gentoo. I wish to serve my project with the address: /comics

I followed the mod_wsgi directions in the django documentation to the letter, coming up with these files:

/etc/apache2/modules.d/70_mod_wsgi.conf

<IfDefine WSGI>
LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so
</IfDefine>

WSGIScriptAlias /comics /home/****/django/comicky/apache/django.wsgi

and

/home/****/django/comicky/apache/django.wsgi
import os
import sys
sys.path.append('/home/****/django')
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'comicky.settings'
import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

However, when I attempt to load the page, I get this in /var/log/apache2/error_log:

client denied by server configuration: /home/****/django/comicky/apache/django.wsgi

Any ideas?

Solution

Sounds like a permissions issue from your conf file. See, for example:

• Apache Error: Client denied by server configuration

Comments

[Michael Westbom]

I have "AllowOveride All" "Order allow,deny" "Allow from all"

[Graham Dumpleton]

is correct, this indicates that you haven't correctly told Apache that it can serve up that resource. See my talk slides at code.google.com/p/modwsgi/downloads/… where I explicitly show this. If you go to wiki on mod_wsgi site you will also find link to video of talk.

[Michael Westbom]

Thanks. I didn't include the necessary <Directory> directives. I only had "/", not the actual folder of my app. That problem is solved. Now just to resolve some weird library issues, but I won't make you guys fix that one for me.