Deploying on Apache with mod_wsgi for the production environment

Apache is one of the most popular web servers. It makes sense to deploy your Django project under Apache if you also have to run some services for server management, monitoring, analytics, blogging, e-commerce, and so on that require Apache on the same server.

In this recipe, we will continue working from the previous recipe and will implement an Ansible script (a playbook) to set up a production environment on Apache with the mod_wsgi module.

Getting ready

Make sure that your project configuration doesn't raise warnings when you run the following:

(env)$ python manage.py check --deploy -- 
 settings=myproject.settings.production

Make sure you have the latest...