Easiest way to host and deploy Python web applications (Django) using Apache and Mod_WSGI (Mod_WSGI-express)

hosting-deploying-python-web-apps.md

Apache virtual host to proxy requests to another port

Name it project_name.conf and symlink to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

<VirtualHost *:80>
       ServerName example.com
       ProxyPass / http://localhost:8000/
       ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8000/
       RequestHeader set X-Forwarded-Port 80
</VirtualHost>

Systemd project.service script to run it in background and start when machine reboots.

Name it project_name.service and put/symlink it to /etc/systemd/system/

[Unit]
Description=Porject_name application daemon

[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/roject_dir
ExecStart=/var/www/project_dir/env/bin/mod_wsgi-express start-server --url-alias /static /var/www/project_dir/static wsgi.py
Group=www-data
User=www-data
Restart=always

Finally, run sudo systemctl daemon-reload and sudo systemctl start project_name