I am actually not sure if the title of the topic is actually the source of my issue but there are serious indications for this. I am not an expert in application servers such as apache so any help is most welcome.
I have installed successfully a Django application in a google cloud VM machine (Ubuntu 16.04 with static IP). I am able to access the page but there is no CSS loaded, missing javascript files (e.g. jquery) and several 500 Internal Server Errors.
To give a better idea of the errors, I attach a screenshot
The first think I thought is that I have not put the static files in the correct folder for the application server (www/../). But that was not the case.
Then I thought maybe the www folder doesn't have the right permissions. But that wasn't not the case. The user was set correct to: www-data.
My sites-enabled folder of apache2 include my project.conf file.
Then I tried to run this command:
/usr/sbin/apache2 -S
and I got that back:
VirtualHost configuration:
*:80 localhost (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/geonode.conf:3)
ServerRoot: "/etc/apache2"
Main DocumentRoot: "/var/www/html"
Main ErrorLog: "/var/log/apache2/error.log"
Mutex proxy: using_defaults
Mutex default: dir="/var/lock/apache2" mechanism=fcntl
Mutex watchdog-callback: using_defaults
PidFile: "/var/run/apache2/apache2.pid"
Define: DUMP_VHOSTS
Define: DUMP_RUN_CFG
User: name="www-data" id=33 not_used
Group: name="www-data" id=33 not_used
As you can see the Main DocumentRoot is in the following folder: "/var/www/html"
I was wondering if this could be the reason. Somehow apache is trying to read files from the wrong directory (correct one /var/www/project).
I tried to change the Main DocumentRoot by modifying the parameters in the apache.conf file but whenever I test the changes (/usr/sbin/apache2 -S) I still get the old directory.
I am not even sure that this could be the issue. Any ideas what is going on here?
Note1: I have tried the installation in a local VM and works fine
Note2: I have tried in another remote VM and I get the same issue.
EDIT
This is the apache error.log file:
[Fri Jun 01 03:42:58.356938 2018] [wsgi:error] [pid 32199:tid 140244594628352]
Internal Server Error: /favicon.ico
[Fri Jun 01 03:42:58.357214 2018] [wsgi:error] [pid 32199:tid 140244594628352]
Traceback (most recent call last):
[Fri Jun 01 03:42:58.357347 2018] [wsgi:error] [pid 32199:tid 140244594628352]
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line
108, in get_response
[Fri Jun 01 03:42:58.357402 2018] [wsgi:error] [pid 32199:tid 140244594628352]
response = middleware_method(request)
[Fri Jun 01 03:42:58.357450 2018] [wsgi:error] [pid 32199:tid 140244594628352]
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/middleware/common.py", line 62,
in process_request
[Fri Jun 01 03:42:58.357496 2018] [wsgi:error] [pid 32199:tid 140244594628352]
host = request.get_host()
[Fri Jun 01 03:42:58.357556 2018] [wsgi:error] [pid 32199:tid 140244594628352]
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/http/request.py", line 94,
inget_host
[Fri Jun 01 03:42:58.357603 2018] [wsgi:error] [pid 32199:tid 140244594628352]
if domain and validate_host(domain, allowed_hosts):
[Fri Jun 01 03:42:58.357651 2018] [wsgi:error] [pid 32199:tid 140244594628352]
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/http/request.py", line 571, in
validate_host
[Fri Jun 01 03:42:58.357696 2018] [wsgi:error] [pid 32199:tid 140244594628352]
pattern = pattern.lower()
[Fri Jun 01 03:42:58.357762 2018] [wsgi:error] [pid 32199:tid 140244594628352]
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lower'
EDIT
This is how my configuration file in sites-enabled folder looks like:
WSGIDaemonProcess geonode user=www-data threads=15 processes=2
<VirtualHost *:80>
Servername localhost
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
LimitRequestFieldSize 32760
LimitRequestLine 32760
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
WSGIProcessGroup geonode
WSGIPassAuthorization On
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/geonode/wsgi/geonode.wsgi
<Directory "/var/www/geonode/">
Order allow,deny
Options -Indexes
] Allow from all
Require all granted
</Directory>
Alias /static/ /var/www/geonode/static/
Alias /uploaded/ /var/www/geonode/uploaded/
Alias /robots.txt /var/www/geonode/robots.txt
<Directory "/var/www/geonode/uploaded/documents/">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/geonode/uploaded/layers/">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/geonode/static_root/">
Order allow,deny
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Allow from all
Require all granted
IndexOptions FancyIndexing
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/geonode/uploaded/thumbs/">
Order allow,deny
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Allow from all
Require all granted
IndexOptions FancyIndexing
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/geonode/uploaded/avatars/">
Order allow,deny
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Allow from all
Require all granted
IndexOptions FancyIndexing
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/geonode/uploaded/people_group/">
Order allow,deny
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Allow from all
Require all granted
IndexOptions FancyIndexing
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/geonode/uploaded/group/">
Order allow,deny
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Allow from all
Require all granted
IndexOptions FancyIndexing
</Directory>
<Proxy *>
Order allow,deny
Require all granted
Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyPreserveHost On
ProxyPass /geoserver http://localhost:8080/geoserver
ProxyPassReverse /geoserver http://localhost:8080/geoserver
</VirtualHost>
Best Answer
Try to set the
DocumentRoot
like this: