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I am currently struggling to set up Django on a MediaTemple dv 3.0 server. I failed to find any resources on Google that worked for me, so I combed through the private MediaTemple user forums. I found the following forum posting to be useful, so I’m re-posting it here so that it’s publicly accessible via search engines:

Thanks for the help, I got it working. For anyone’s future reference here are the steps I took to make this work:

Using:

Python2.4
MySqlDb 1.2.1_p2
Django off the svn trunk

Download and compile and install mysqldb

Edit your vhost.conf file just as leland said, as root in the conf dir of vhost:

Code:

SetHandler python-program
PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
PythonPath “['/var/www/vhosts/your-domain.com/django-projects'] + sys.path”
SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE your-project-name.settings
PythonDebug Off
PythonInterpreter UniqueID

SetHandler None

SetHandler None

Create your django-projects directory and set the owner:group

Code:

chown ftpusername:psaserv django-templates django-projects

I symlinked my django-admin.py to /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py

You will need to restart apache and, this was one that puzzled me for a bit…I had to resave my domain settings in plesk to get it to pick up the vhost.conf file.

(A good reference for this: http://groups.google.com.tr/group/djang … 4de833d9c2)

Once you have done that create a project and make sure the vhost is setup correctly…

To test I just setup a basic page like in the django book:

http://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/chapter03/

- joshm