Installation

• First install apache and start

sudo yum install httpd
sudo systemctl start httpd

• Then install httpd devel

sudo yum install httpd-devel

• Install mod_wsgi

sudo yum install mod_wsgi
sudo systemctl restart httpd

• Check if it is working

$ sudo httpd - M | grep wsgi
wsgi_module (shared) # The okay response

• If the server didn't load the mod_wsgi module, add the following line in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file along with the other loadmodule sections:

LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so

• Then restart the apache server again:

sudo systemctl restart httpd

• Extract the source code and copy the thesis-recorder folder into /var/www folder

sudo cp -r /path/to/your/extracted/thesis-recorder /var/www/thesis-recorder

• Give permission of the folder

sudo chmod 777 -R /var/www/thesis-recorder

• Go to /var/www and create virtualenv

cd /var/www/thesis-recorder
python3 -m venv venv

• Install the dependencies for the virtual env:

source /venv/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• Create database and grant permission:

python3 manage.py migrate
sudo chmod 777 /var/www/thesis-recorder/db.sqlite3

• Add these line into the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file under vitualhost section

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localhost
    WSGIDaemonProcess thesis-recorder user=http group=http threads=2 python-path=/var/www/thesis-recorder/venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages
    WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/thesis-recorder/thesis_recorder/wsgi.py
    <Directory /var/www/thesis-recorder>
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/thesis-recorder/media>
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

• Restart the apache server and go to http://127.0.0.1 in the browser:

sudo systemctl restart httpd

if SELinux Policy is Enforcing

[root@cse thesis-recorder]# semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_exec_t '<absolute path to venv>/.*\.so(\..*)?'
[root@cse thesis-recorder]# restorecon -r <<absolute path to venv>>