Drupal setup on a Django server.

July 10, 2014 2.6k views
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Hi I have a Ubuntu 14.04 LAMP server. I am currently using Django to serve the content of my site. I would like to add Drupal to my site and use it for a blog. Django is serveing the root right now (vinixinc.com) but I want to add a folder (/blog) to install Drupal to so if you go to (vinixinc.com/blog) it'll load the Drupal project. If i use Django to serve the Drupal project I will have to create a view and add it to my urls for every page as well as configure each page to use CSRF. That will make things very complicated. So my question is can I setup Apache to serve a folder on a site without Django if the rest of my site is using Django.

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asb MOD July 15, 2014

If you are just going to keep the Drupal site in a sub-directory, you can set this up using Alias directive. It would look something like:

Alias /blog /path/to/drupal/
<Directory /path/to/drupal>
   # You Drupal configuration options here
</Directory>

WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/django/project/app.wsgi
<Directory /path/to/django/project>
   # You Django configuration options here
</Directory>

Of course, you'll need to install the rest of the LAMP stack (PHP, MySql) for Drupal.

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