Porting Django Project to 1&1 Shared Hosting Web-server
Question: As a little background, I've been developing a django application for a 1&1
shared hosting website. When I tried to port the app to the web, I followed
the tutorial from here: <http://robhogg.me.uk/post/2>. The servers have Python
2.6, and I installed django and flup through SSH. Here is my .fsgi file...

    
    
    #!/usr/bin/python
    import sys, os
    
    basepath = '/home/path/' # This isn't my actual homepath
    
    sys.path.insert(0, basepath + '/.local/lib')
    sys.path.insert(0, basepath + '/mysite')
    
    os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'
    
    from django.core.servers.fastcgi import runfastcgi
    runfastcgi(method='threaded', daemonize='false')
    

...and here is my .htaccess file...

    
    
    AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !(cgi-bin/mysite.fcgi) 
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cgi-bin/mysite.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]
    

I also already gave the .fcgi script 755 permissions. When I run the .fcgi
script, the homepage HTML prints on the console (which according to many sites
means the script is good). But when I go to my website's domain, I was getting
just an Index.html page that was sitting in my home directory. So I moved all
the html files from the home directory, and tried again. But this time I get
an error:

    
    
    Forbidden
    
    You don't have permission to access / on this server.
    
    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
    

I tried one more thing, and that was in the .htaccess file, changing

    
    
    AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
    

to

    
    
    AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
    

After searching everywhere, I couldn't find a solution, so I followed the
directions on this site:
<https://help.asmallorange.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/140> Even
though it was a different host, it was the same concept with similar steps. I
followed all the steps, creating a new project and everything, and in the end,
had the same issue.

I've been through a ton of posts like this one, but none have had a solution
that worked yet. Maybe this is a 1&1 specific issue, but I would really
appreciate the help if anyone has any suggestions.


Answer: I got the same error as you got. But after I moved the .htaccess file to the
django project folder, it works.

