I am getting 500 Internal error with Apache and FastCGI. Spent the whole day to find the reason :-/
/etc/apache2/vhost.d/mysite.conf
FastCGIExternalServer /home/me/web/mysite.fcgi -socket /home/me/web/mysite.sock
Listen 80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName os.me #That's my localhost machine
DocumentRoot /home/me/web
Alias /media/ /home/me/develop/projects/media
<Directory "/home/me/web">
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
Order allow,deny
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
/home/me/web/.htaccess
Options +Indexes +FollowSymlinks
AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ mysite.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]
/home/me/web/mysite.fcgi
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys, os
os.chdir("/home/me/develop/projects/mysite")
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = "mysite.settings"
from django.core.servers.fastcgi import runfastcgi
runfastcgi(method="threaded",daemonize="false")
/var/log/apache2/error_log
...
[Sat Aug 07 01:41:13 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (2)No such file or directory: FastCGI: failed to connect to server "/home/me/web/mysite.fcgi": connect() failed
[Sat Aug 07 01:41:13 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server "/home/me/web/mysite.fcgi"
Executing of .fcgi file (it works as html page got status "200 OK" and was rendered as it should be):
me@os ~/web $ python mysite.fcgi
WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param REQUEST_METHOD required by WSGI!
WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_NAME required by WSGI!
WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_PORT required by WSGI!
WSGIServer: missing FastCGI param SERVER_PROTOCOL required by WSGI!
Status: 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
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