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Multiple sites under single django code base using mod_wsgi

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2010-07-28 18:22:14

Hi,Could you please elaborate. I need to dynamically import the site specific settings files into the global setting file. Could you please help me how can I achieve this with Apache + mod_wsgi

Joseph 2010-07-28 18:26:24

Import the global settings in the site-specific settings.

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2010-07-28 18:39:23

Answer 2

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every Django project should have it's own mod.wsgi file (not necessarily called mod.wsgi, btw) which looks like :
```
import os, sys
sys.path.append('DJANGO_PATH')
sys.path.append('DJANGO_PATH/SITEPATH')
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'SITE.settings'


import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()
```
where DJANGO_PATH is the path where all your Django projects were created, SITEPATH is the folder where your specific project resides.
in Apache make a virtualhost for every site that refers to their own mod.wgsi files, like :
```
WSGIScriptAlias / /DJANGOPATH/SITEPATH/mod.wsgi
```

repeat for all sites.

Jasper 2010-07-28 18:26:47

ok agreed, but consider if I need a common authentication technique need to be applied for these two sites. how can I achieve this without replicating the code and resource. These two sites may be using its own database and the authentication User table is supposed to be a different database. Is there a way to achieve this. Please advice

Joseph 2010-07-28 18:35:47

You could use a LDAP database to authenticate against. In the settings.py file in each project you can set the databases for the application data. In that case their both not used for authentication/user data.

Jasper 2010-07-28 18:45:34

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