You can use the Django framework for Python on our servers.

This page shows how to get Django scripts to respond to requests (it’s not a complete tutorial). It assumes you’re comfortable using the command-line shell.

The first thing to do is install the “flup” module that Django needs to handle WSGI requests. Run this from the command-line shell:

pip3 install flup

Now install Django:

pip3 install Django

After that, create a new Django project by running:

cd ~/html/
~/.local/bin/django-admin startproject mysite

Then create this file named yourapplication.fcgi at “mysite/mysite/yourapplication.fcgi” (you can use an editor like vi, with vi mysite/mysite/yourapplication.fcgi):

#!/usr/bin/python3
import os
import sys
from flup.server.fcgi import WSGIServer
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application

sys.path.insert(0, '/var/www/html/ex/example.com/mysite')
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'
application = get_wsgi_application()
WSGIServer(application).run()

Finally, make the “yourapplication.fcgi” file executable, which you can do from the command-line shell with this command:

chmod 0755 mysite/mysite/yourapplication.fcgi

After doing this, the script should work if you load it as https://example.com/mysite/mysite/yourapplication.fcgi/. (You’ll probably see a “DisallowedHost” error, but that’s an error from Django that shows that it’s working. The normal Django instructions will help you solve that.)

Can I hide “/yourapplication.fcgi/” at the end of the URL?

You can make the script work when loaded as just https://example.com/mysite/ if you add this .htaccess file to the upper “mysite” directory:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /mysite/
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ mysite/yourapplication.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>