Added new django app, now page shows 404, not even django 404

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Hello, I spent most of the afternoon trying to deploy my django app to webfaction. The thing is, I followed every step on Getting Started except the one for static under another app, so my problem is I'm not really sure if my site does not work because of not doing this static step, or it is something else.

I have following configs:

Under /home/username/webapps i have 3 webapps:
static <-- Not being used for now
django <-- default app, I have not touched it
my_app <-- which contains all my django code

On the control panel I have the following Website:

Name: name-of-my-app
Status: enabled
Security: http
Domains: username.webfactional.com
Contents: my_app (see above)

I don't know what could be wrong, but if I change the Contents, to django(the default app) and I got to my URL username.webfactional.com I see the Apache page, something like It works ! If I change Contents back to my_app I see 404, not even the django 404 url not found, I get 404 Not Found The requested URL / was not found on this server.

Please help me.

Edit: I checked the webfaction documentation for this, but I was not making any of those mistakes.

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A 404 Error with a Django application -- but not a Django 404 -- indicates that the error is actually occurring before it hits your Django application.

Most of the time, this is caused by an incorrect WSGIScript setting, where the httpd.conf file is pointing mod_wsgi to a WSGI file that doesn't exist. For example:

WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/your/app/wsgi.py

But where /path/to/your/app/wsgi.py doesn't actually exist.

Hope that helps!

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answered 17 Jan '13, 01:38

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That was it, thanks a lot.

(17 Jan '13, 08:23) PepperoniPizza

Added new django app, now page shows 404, not even django 404

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