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Django - Apache2 can't load media files from media folder

I installed an linux server with apache where I want to run my Django app. So I set everything up and when I started the app everything was shown to me except for the pictures.
I couldn't find a error inside my site.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName MYHOST
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mysite-error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/mysite-access.log combined
WSGIDaemonProcess mysite processes=2 threads=25 python-path=/var/www/mysite
WSGIProcessGroup mysite
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/mysite/mysite/wsgi.py
Alias /robots.txt /var/www/mysite/static/robots.txt
Alias /favicon.ico /var/www/mysite/static/favicon.ico
Alias /static/ /var/www/mysite/static/
Alias /static/ /var/www/mysite/media/
<Directory /var/www/mysite/mysite>
<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/mysite/static>
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/mysite/media>
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
or inside my settings.py
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = '/var/www/mysite/static'
MEDIA_ROOT = '/var/www/mysite/media'
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
What I did was setting debug = True and inside linux console I run python3 manage.py collectstatic after reloading apache the website was shown with all its css and js but for every image request I get an error 404.
Inside my templates/base.html I call {% load static %}. I tried to replace it with {% load staticfiles from static %} but that crashed my entire app (err 500)
I use Django version 3.x and apache2

Using Django w/ mod_wsgi and Apache

I've been trying to work out how I'll go about setting up a Django application on production, when it's ready for deployment. I'm using Django v1.11, and my EC2 is running Ubuntu 14.04. I have been attempting to refer to this guide as reference, however it is not specific to Ubuntu, so I've been experiencing a bit of difficulty in this regard. I've referred to several other resources, but much of what is out there seems to be outdated.
I have a host rule set up on my local machine, pointing www.example.com to my EC2 instance's public IP address.
I have a virtualenv set up which lives in /home/django/example.com/ENV. My Django project lives in /home/django/example.com directly. The project name is mysite, and was generated using django-admin startproject mysite, thus it has the default wsgi.py file inside the /home/django/example.com/mysite directory. The contents of wsgi.py look like:
"""
WSGI config for mysite project.
It exposes the WSGI callable as a module-level variable named ``application``.
For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/deployment/wsgi/
"""
import os
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "mysite.settings")
application = get_wsgi_application()
I've tried adding VirtualHost rules such as the following:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
WSGIScriptAlias / /home/django/example.com/mysite/wsgi.py
<Directory "/home/django/example.com/mysite">
<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Similarly, I've tried adding:
Include /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
to /etc/apache/apache2.conf and chucking the following:
WSGIScriptAlias / /home/django/example.com/mysite/wsgi.py
WSGIPythonHome /home/django/example.com/ENV
WSGIPythonPath /home/django/example.com
<Directory /home/django/example.com/mysite>
<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>
into httpd.conf.
In either case, I've restarted the Apache server directly afterwards.
I'm not getting any further than hitting "500 Internal Server Error" or hitting an "ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE".
Anyone able to shed some light around a) where I'm going wrong, b) where I can refer to for up-to-date instructions, or c) how I can troubleshoot this?

After a lot of troubleshooting, and consulting with the resource mentioned in Graham's comment, here's what I established was required in my VirtualHost:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
Alias /static /home/django/example.com/static
<Directory /home/django/example.com/static>
Require all granted
</Directory>
WSGIDaemonProcess mysite python-path=/home/django/example.com:/home/django/ENV/lib/python3.4/site-packages
WSGIProcessGroup mysite
WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
WSGIScriptAlias / /home/django/example.com/mysite/wsgi.py
<Directory /home/django/example.com/mysite>
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
and here are the contents of wsgi.py that I settled on:
"""
WSGI config for mysite project.
It exposes the WSGI callable as a module-level variable named ``application``.
For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/deployment/wsgi/
"""
import os, sys
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
path = '/home/django/example.com'
if path not in sys.path:
sys.path.append(path)
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "mysite.settings")
And it is also worth noting (simply because it wasn't immediately obvious to me) that it is necessary to specify:
STATIC_ROOT = '/home/django/example.com/static'
in settings.py, and to run python manage.py collectstatic to collect static files from all applications into said STATIC_ROOT.
I hope this helps somebody else, in future!

Django - deployed, 403 for static but it should have permission, wsgi + Apache

my deployed Django project can't access the static files, I get 403 for all of them when inspecting in Chrome.
I added the following to my 000-default.conf where I also have the WSGIScriptAlias etc.:
Alias /static/ /home/budget/static/deploy/
<Directory /home/budget/static/deploy>
Required all granted
</Directory/
The static files exist in the budget/static/deploy folder. Should this not give the required permissions? What do I have to change to get rid of the 403?
It is running on Ubuntu 16.04.
Edit:
settings.py:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
#os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'budget/static'),
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static"),
)
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static/deploy/")

There may be a couple of different things that cause your configuration not to work. First of all, I would make sure that you are indeed modifying the proper Apache configuration file. You can run this command to check this:
/usr/sbin/apachectl -V | grep SERVER_CONFIG_FILE | awk '{split($0,a,"="); print a[2]}' | sed s/\"//g
Then, to delegate other API requests to django through WSGI, you should also give the correct permissions to your wsgi file (maybe this is not absolutely required for mere static serving to work):
<Directory /path/to/django/project/project>
<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>
Next, set the process information to be used by Apache as well as your binding url for your project.
WSGIDaemonProcess myproject python-path=/path/to/django/project python-home=/path/to/your/venv
WSGIProcessGroup mydjangoproject
WSGIScriptAlias /binding/url /path/to/django/project/project/wsgi.py
Lastly, you may need to set up some permissions to allow www-data to read your media and static files and you should be all set. Don't forget to restart Apache to apply the modifications.

Django EC2 deployment with wsgi and Apache

I have a micro instance on EC2 with Django installed there. I've also installed mod-WSGI, PostgreSQL, etc following several tutorials.
Finally, I pulled my project from bitbucket and started Apache on my EC2. Unfortunately, the only thing I have is the default Apache page and I've already spent a day and night reading and trying to figure out what am I doing wrong.
my_project is in /home/ubuntu dir. In it's folder I have wsgi.py file:
import os
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "my_project.settings")
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
application = get_wsgi_application()
This is my .conf file stored in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf:
Listen 80
NameVirtualHost *:80
WSGIPythonPath /home/ubuntu/my_project/
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /home/ubuntu/my_project
ServerName www.ec2-54-***-104-**.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
ServerAlias ec2-54-***-104-**.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
ErrorLog /home/ubuntu/my_project/apache/error_log
CustomLog /home/ubuntu/my_project/access_log_common
WSGIScriptAlias / /home/ubuntu/my_project/wsgi.py
Alias /static/ /home/ubuntu/my_project/static/
<Directory /home/ubuntu/my_project/static>
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /home/ubuntu/my_project>
<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
When I'm trying to
/etc/init.d/apache2 stop
and instead:
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80
It works fine and I'm able to connect to my app from a browser with IP as URL.
It gives me understanding that the setting.py file is fine (am I right?) and the problem is or in wsgi.py or httpd.conf.
When I stop my development server and start Apache again, I get the default Apache page. Can you help me please to find what's wrong with my files?
Permissions for apache:
ubuntu#ip-172-**-**-69:~$ ls -ld my_project/
drwxr-xr-x 10 www-data www-data 4096 May 26 19:51 project/

You normally shouldn't use an IP address for ServerName, it has to be the hostname (FQDN) that the site is accessed as.
You are missing a WSGIDaemonProcess directive to correspond to your use of WSGIProcessGroup.
It is bad security practice to set DocumentRoot to be where your source code for your application is.
Finally, stuff under a users home directory is not usually accessible to the user that Apache runs as.
Suggest go back and review the mod_wsgi deployment documentation on the Django site again for a start.

Setting up django and apache using the tutorial isn't working

I am trying to set up apache with an existing django project using the tutorial in django site here. My os is Ubuntu, and everything is installed (django apache2 libapache2-mod-wsgi)
My conf file
WSGIPythonPath /home/avlahop/development/django/rhombus2/rhombus/
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName myrhobmus.com
ServerAlias www.myrhombus.com
WSGIScriptAlias / /home/avlahop/development/django/rhombus2/rhombus/rhombus/wsgi.py
</VirtualHost>
After I created the conf file I ran the a2ensite Ubuntu command for enabling the site.
Putting WSGIPythonPath inside VirtualHost gives me an apache configtest failure
Files inside directive inside directory (as described in the example) gives me the same failure
If I go to www.myrhombus.com I get a Google chrome could not find the specified address message.
What am I doing wrong? Every tutorial on the Internet is using the old file.wsgi while now Django creates this for you but it is a python file with .py extension. How can I serve my django with apache? And If I wanted to go production at my own server where would you put django code and where would you put template files?
EDIT: I am only getting the Index of / page. Is there something I have to do with mysites location in terms of permissions? Could you give me a working example of an django site apache conf file?

I use Django 1.8 and I successfully deployed my project Apache server. I followed basic concept like you and enable Apache this module early.
enable module
You can my project structure this question.Refer this question to understand project structure
--------------this is my virtual host file----------------------------------
WSGIPythonPath /home/umayanga/Desktop/view_site/serialKey_gen_site:/home/umayanga/Desktop/view_site/serialKey_gen_site/myvenv/lib/python3.4/site$
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin#key.com
ServerName key.com
ServerAlias www.key.com
Alias /templates/ /home/umayanga/Desktop/view_site/serialKey_gen_site/templates/
Alias /static/ /home/umayanga/Desktop/view_site/serialKey_gen_site/static/
<Directory "/home/umayanga/Desktop/view_site/serialKey_gen_site/static">
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory "/home/umayanga/Desktop/view_site/serialKey_gen_site/templates">
Require all granted
</Directory>
WSGIScriptAlias / /home/umayanga/Desktop/view_site/serialKey_gen_site/mysite/wsgi.py
<Directory "/home/umayanga/Desktop/view_site/serialKey_gen_site/mysite">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Require all granted
<Files wsgi.py>
Require all granted
</Files>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
-----------------wsgi.py---------------------------------------
"""
WSGI config for mysite project.
It exposes the WSGI callable as a module-level variable named ``application``.
For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/deployment/wsgi/
"""
import os
from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "mysite.settings")
application = get_wsgi_application()
I think this will be help to you.