title: Running a django project in a subdirectory of a site already running Drupal
body: <p>This problem has been bugging me for the last week or so and now I am coming up on a deadline. I have a site on a Media Temple DV server that is running Drupal in the webroot (servername.org). I am adding a django site and I would like it to be located at the url servername.org/myproject. I have build the project (in a directory not in the webroot) and it is working fine when I run it with the django dev server but I cannot get apache configured to run my django site. 
  I followed this tutorial <a href="http://how.4cpus.com/installing-django-on-mt-media-temple-dv-35-server-with-mod_python/" rel="nofollow">http://how.4cpus.com/installing-django-on-mt-media-temple-dv-35-server-with-mod_python/</a></p>
  
  <p>to do the initial setup and configured vhost..conf as explained there. But the Drupal generated .htaccess file keeps grabbing my url and returning a 404 error.</p>
  
  <p>The only work around I have so far is that if I create a subdirectory in webroot called  httpdocs/myproject  and then goto the url servername.org/myproject it works. But as soon I try to go to any subfolder of myproject (e.g. servername/myproject/login) I get the 404 error again.</p>
  
  <p>Any help here? I know it must be an easy one or two line apache configuration thing but I can't figure it out and I'm running out of ideas. </p>
  
  <p>Here is a snippet from the vhost.conf file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Location "/myproject/"&gt;
    SetHandler python-program
    PythonPath "['/var/www/vhosts/servename.org/']+sys.path"
    PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE myproject.settings
    PythonInterpreter myproject
  &lt;/Location&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And here is the Drupal .htaccess file in webroot (notice the rewirte rule I put in near the end that doesn't appear to do anything): </p>
  
  <pre><code>#
  # Apache/PHP/Drupal settings:
  #
  
  # Protect files and directories from prying eyes.
  &lt;FilesMatch "\.(engine|inc|info|install|module|profile|test|po|sh|.*sql|theme|tpl(\.php)?|xtmpl|svn-base)$|^(code-style\.pl|Entries.*|Repository|Root|Tag|Template|all-wcprops|entries|format)$"&gt;
    Order allow,deny
  &lt;/FilesMatch&gt;
  
  # Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory.
  Options -Indexes
  
  # Follow symbolic links in this directory.
  Options +FollowSymLinks
  
  # Make Drupal handle any 404 errors.
  ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
  
  # Force simple error message for requests for non-existent favicon.ico.
  &lt;Files favicon.ico&gt;
    # There is no end quote below, for compatibility with Apache 1.3.
    ErrorDocument 404 "The requested file favicon.ico was not found.
  &lt;/Files&gt;
  
  # Set the default handler.
  DirectoryIndex index.php
  
  # Override PHP settings. More in sites/default/settings.php
  # but the following cannot be changed at runtime.
  
  # PHP 4, Apache 1.
  &lt;IfModule mod_php4.c&gt;
    php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
    php_value register_globals                0
    php_value session.auto_start              0
    php_value mbstring.http_input             pass
    php_value mbstring.http_output            pass
    php_value mbstring.encoding_translation   0
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  # PHP 4, Apache 2.
  &lt;IfModule sapi_apache2.c&gt;
    php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
    php_value register_globals                0
    php_value session.auto_start              0
    php_value mbstring.http_input             pass
    php_value mbstring.http_output            pass
    php_value mbstring.encoding_translation   0
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  # PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2.
  &lt;IfModule mod_php5.c&gt;
    php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
    php_value register_globals                0
    php_value session.auto_start              0
    php_value mbstring.http_input             pass
    php_value mbstring.http_output            pass
    php_value mbstring.encoding_translation   0
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  # Requires mod_expires to be enabled.
  &lt;IfModule mod_expires.c&gt;
    # Enable expirations.
    ExpiresActive On
  
    # Cache all files for 2 weeks after access (A).
    ExpiresDefault A1209600
  
    &lt;FilesMatch \.php$&gt;
      # Do not allow PHP scripts to be cached unless they explicitly send cache
      # headers themselves. Otherwise all scripts would have to overwrite the
      # headers set by mod_expires if they want another caching behavior. This may
      # fail if an error occurs early in the bootstrap process, and it may cause
      # problems if a non-Drupal PHP file is installed in a subdirectory.
      ExpiresActive Off
    &lt;/FilesMatch&gt;
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  # Various rewrite rules.
  &lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;
    RewriteEngine on
  
    # If your site can be accessed both with and without the 'www.' prefix, you
    # can use one of the following settings to redirect users to your preferred
    # URL, either WITH or WITHOUT the 'www.' prefix. Choose ONLY one option:
    #
    # To redirect all users to access the site WITH the 'www.' prefix,
    # (http://example.com/... will be redirected to http://www.example.com/...)
    # adapt and uncomment the following:
    # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
    # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
    #
    # To redirect all users to access the site WITHOUT the 'www.' prefix,
    # (http://www.example.com/... will be redirected to http://example.com/...)
    # uncomment and adapt the following:
    # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC]
    # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
  
    # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory or in a
    # VirtualDocumentRoot and the rewrite rules are not working properly.
    # For example if your site is at http://example.com/drupal uncomment and
    # modify the following line:
    # RewriteBase /drupal
    #
    # If your site is running in a VirtualDocumentRoot at http://example.com/,
    # uncomment the following line:
    # RewriteBase /
  
    # Added by Wil Black Oct. 7, 2010
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} "/myproject/"
    RewriteRule (.*) $1 [L]
  
    # Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php?q=x'.
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
  &lt;/IfModule&gt;
  
  # $Id: .htaccess,v 1.90.2.4 2009/12/07 12:00:40 goba Exp $
  
  
    [1]: http://how.4cpus.com/installing-django-on-mt-media-temple-dv-35-server-with-mod_python/
  </code></pre>