title: Apache 2 + mod_wsgi + WSGIScriptAlias
body: <p>I am currently doing research whether Python and Django are fit for a project that I'm going to work on (so far it looks good). As a means of a test, I want to get python running on an actual server (apache2 on ubuntu), using mod_wsgi, but I just can't make it work. Here is my httpd.conf (located at /etc/apache2/httpd.conf):</p>
  
  <pre><code>WSGIScriptAlias /test/tc-test/ /var/www/stage/hello/tc-test/django.wsgi
  WSGIPythonPath /var/www/stage/test/tc-test/
  
  &lt;Directory /var/www/stage/test/tc-test&gt;
  &lt;Files wsgi.py&gt;
  Order deny,allow
  Allow from all
  &lt;/Files&gt;
  &lt;/Directory&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My django.wsgi looks as follows: </p>
  
  <pre><code>import os
  import sys
  
  sys.path.append('/var/www/stage/test/tc-test')
  
  os_environment['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'settings'
  
  import django.core.handlers.wsgi
  
  application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The url for this directory will be <a href="http://stage.website.com/test/tc-test" rel="noreferrer">http://stage.website.com/test/tc-test</a></p>
  
  <p>Strangely enough, when I reboot the apache server, I keep getting 500 internal server errors. Not just for that subdirectory, but for all other subdirectories on the server. I looked at the apache error log, but for some reason no error is being logged at all. I managed to narrow down the culprits to WSGIScriptAlias and WSGIPythonPath: when I remove both of them, the 500 internal server errors disappear, and when I add any of them, they appear again. I have confirmed that mod_wsgi is working like it should, and it's probably something very simple that I'm looking over. I just can't find out what. Any help on this?</p>