A Python-based framework, Django enables you to create powerful websites in a quick and easy way. In this article, you will learn to install and configure Django using cPanel.<\/p>\n
After you complete the procedure of installation and configuration of Django, your site will be able to:<\/p>\n
At first you will need to create a Python application within cPanel to host the Django project. To do this, follow these steps:<\/p>\n
1. Log in to cPanel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 2. Go to the SOFTWARE<\/strong> section of the cPanel home screen and click on Setup Python App<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 3. Under Setup new application<\/strong>, select 3.6<\/strong> in the Python<\/strong> version list box.<\/p>\n 4. Type myapp<\/strong> in the App Directory<\/strong> text box.<\/p>\n 5. Choose the domain you want to use in the App Domain\/URI<\/strong> list box and then leave the URI<\/strong> text box empty.<\/p>\n 6. Click on Setup<\/strong>. With this, cPanel creates the application and sets up the Python environment.<\/p>\n 7. Under Existing applications<\/strong>, copy the command from the Command<\/strong> for entering the virtual environment. This information will be needed in the following procedure.<\/p>\n After creating the Python application in cPanel, you will need to do the following tasks at the command line:<\/p>\n For this, follow the below steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Log in to your account using SSH<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 2. Use the command you noted in the above step to activate the virtual environment. For example: 3. Type the below command to install Django<\/strong>:<\/p>\n You can verify the version of Django installed, with the following command:<\/p>\n 4. Type the below command for creating a Django project:<\/p>\n 5. In order to create directories for the static project files, use the below commands:<\/p>\n 6. Open the ~\/myapp\/myapp\/settings.py<\/strong> file by using the text editor, and then make the following changes:<\/p>\n 7. Open the ~\/myapp\/myapp\/urls.py<\/strong> file using the text editor. Delete the existing text and copy the below text into the file:<\/p>\n 8. Open the ~\/myapp\/passenger_wsgi.py<\/em><\/strong> file and do the following changes. Replace username<\/em> <\/strong>with your own account username:<\/p>\n 9. For creating a basic index.html<\/strong> file in the ~\/myapp\/templates\/static_pages<\/em> directory. The file can be as simple as a text file that says Hello world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 10. Type the following command:<\/p>\n 11. Create and set up the superuser account:<\/p>\n 12. To collect the static files, type the below commands:<\/p>\n 13. Restart the Python<\/strong> application in cPanel<\/strong>:<\/p>\n 14. Test the Django site:<\/p>\n If there is a problem for the website to appear in your browser, run the passenger_wsgi.py file manually. For this, type the below command:<\/p>\n When you run this file, you should get any text output to the console. In case there are any errors, check the syntax in the configuration files.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n That’s all! Now, you can easily install and configure Django from your cPanel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Python-based framework, Django enables you to create powerful websites in a quick and easy way. In this article, you will learn to install and configure Django using cPanel. After you complete the procedure of installation and configuration of Django, your site will be able to: Load a static homepage for the domain. Load the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2174,2175,152,569],"class_list":["post-4985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","placeholder-for-hentry","category-cpanel-faq","tag-configure-django","tag-configure-django-from-cpanel","tag-cpanel","tag-django-configuration"],"yoast_head":"\nConfigure The Django Project<\/h3>\n
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\nsource \/home\/username\/virtualenv\/myapp\/3.6\/bin\/activate<\/strong><\/p>\ncd ~\r\npip install django==2.1.8<\/pre>\n
django-admin --version\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
django-admin startproject myapp ~\/myapp<\/pre>\n
mkdir -p ~\/myapp\/templates\/static_pages\r\nmkdir ~\/myapp\/static_files\r\nmkdir ~\/myapp\/static_media<\/pre>\n
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ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['example.com']<\/pre>\n
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TEMPLATES = [\r\n {\r\n 'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',\r\n 'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'templates')],\r\n 'APP_DIRS': True,\r\n 'OPTIONS': {\r\n 'context_processors': [\r\n 'django.template.context_processors.debug',\r\n 'django.template.context_processors.request',\r\n 'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',\r\n 'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',\r\n ],\r\n },\r\n },\r\n]<\/pre>\n\n
STATIC_URL = '\/static\/'\r\nSTATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static_files')\r\n\r\nMEDIA_URL = '\/media\/'\r\nMEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, \"static_media\")<\/pre>\n
from django.contrib import admin\r\nfrom django.urls import path, include\r\nfrom django.conf import settings\r\nfrom django.conf.urls.static import static\r\nfrom django.conf.urls import url\r\nfrom django.views.generic.base import TemplateView\r\n\r\nurlpatterns = [\r\n path('admin\/', admin.site.urls),\r\n url(r'^$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='static_pages\/index.html'), name='home'),\r\n] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)\r\n\r\nurlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)<\/pre>\nimport myapp.wsgi\r\nSCRIPT_NAME = '\/home\/username\/myapp'\r\n\r\nclass PassengerPathInfoFix(object):\r\n \"\"\"\r\n Sets PATH_INFO from REQUEST_URI because Passenger doesn't provide it.\r\n \"\"\"\r\n def __init__(self, app):\r\n self.app = app\r\n\r\n def __call__(self, environ, start_response):\r\n from urllib.parse import unquote\r\n environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] = SCRIPT_NAME\r\n\r\n request_uri = unquote(environ['REQUEST_URI'])\r\n script_name = unquote(environ.get('SCRIPT_NAME', ''))\r\n offset = request_uri.startswith(script_name) and len(environ['SCRIPT_NAME']) or 0\r\n environ['PATH_INFO'] = request_uri[offset:].split('?', 1)[0]\r\n return self.app(environ, start_response)\r\n\r\napplication = myapp.wsgi.application\r\napplication = PassengerPathInfoFix(application)<\/pre>\npython ~\/myapp\/manage.py migrate<\/pre>\n
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python ~\/myapp\/manage.py createsuperuser<\/pre>\n
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python ~\/myapp\/manage.py collectstatic<\/pre>\n
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python ~\/myapp\/passenger_wsgi.py<\/pre>\n