Django+WSGI: Use app at subpath without changes

Question

I'd like to serve a Django application from a subdirectory (for example http://www.stackoverflow.com/django_app/).

I've set up mod_wsgi to serve the page via

WSGIScriptAlias /django_app PATH_TO_DJANGO/wsgi.py

How can I specify settings like LOGIN_URL, STATIC_URL, MEDIA_URL, etc. so Django respects the relative path?

If set STATIC_URL it to "/static/" it tries to reference resources at http://www.stackoverflow.com/static/ instead of http://www.stackoverflow.com/django_app/static/.

But if I set it to "static" (without a leading slash) it is interpreted relative to any URL which is also wrong. For example, the admin page at

http://www.stackoverflow.com/django_app/admin/

tries to load the files from

http://www.stackoverflow.com/django_app/admin/static/

I haven't found a way to tell Django to use http://www.stackoverflow.com/django_app/static without explicitly hardcoding the prefix /django_app within the settings (which IMHO violates the DRY principle because it is already specified in the mod_wsgi-config). It also prohibits serving the same project under different URLs without modifying the project, which seems odd.

Graham Dumpleton · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-02 10:13:42Z

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There is no way for it to be automatic. The URLs in those few variables, and LOGOUT_URL, are not automatically prefixed with the SCRIPT_NAME which is passed in with scripts and which identifies the mount point.

answered Dec 2, 2012 at 10:13

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rluba Over a year ago

Seems like a design flaw in Django.

Graham Dumpleton Over a year ago

It turns out that Django 1.4 added something to help with this. See docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/urlresolvers/#reverse-lazy

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