Host Django application in the Lightsail's built in Apache server

Question

I want to have a production ready Django app with Lighsail and for that I'm following two tutorials to achieve this

• Deploy Django-based application onto Amazon Lightsail
• Deploy A Django Project

From the Bitnami article can see that the AWS documentation follows its Approach B: Self-Contained Bitnami Installations.

According to:

• AWS's documentation, my blocker appears in 5. Host the application using Apache, step g.
• Bitnami's documentation, where it says

On Linux, you can run the application with mod_wsgi in daemon mode. Add the following code in /opt/bitnami/apps/django/django_projects/PROJECT/conf/httpd-app.conf:

The blocker relates to the code I'm being asked to add, in particular the final part that has

Alias /tutorial/static "/opt/bitnami/apps/django/lib/python3.7/site-packages/Django-2.2.9-py3.7.egg/django/contrib/admin/static"
WSGIScriptAlias /tutorial '/opt/bitnami/apps/django/django_projects/tutorial/tutorial/wsgi.py'

More specifically, /home/bitnami/apps/django/. In /home/bitnami/ can only see the following folders . bitnami_application_password . bitnami_credentials . htdocs . stack

and from them the one that most likely resembles /opt/bitnami/apps/ is /home/bitnami/stack/. Thing is, inside of that particular folder, there's no django folder - at least as far as I can tell (already checked inside some of its folders, like the python one).

The workaround for me at this particular stage is to move to a different approach, Approach A: Bitnami Installations Using System Packages (which I've done and managed to make it work as wrote in this blog post), but I'd like to get it to work using Approach B and hence this question.

Answer 1

The problem here is in the mentioning of the paths for both the project and Django.

In my case, projects are under /home/bitnami/projects/ where I created a Django project named tutorial.

Also, if I run the command

python -c "
import sys
sys.path = sys.path[1:]
import django
print(django.__path__)"

it'll print me the location where Django is installed

['/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django']

So, the httpd-app.conf should have instead at the end

Alias /tutorial/static "/opt/bitnami/python/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static"
WSGIScriptAlias /tutorial '/home/bitnami/projects/tutorial/tutorial/wsgi.py'