Installing Django on Centos 5

16 March 2008 By Mike 7

In preparing to upgrade this server to Centos 5.x, I did a test install of the Centos "Server" configuration using VirtualBox. The "Server" configuration comes with Apache 2.x, Python 2.4, and mod_python pre-loaded.

Installing Django

Here are the commands needed to install the latest version of Django: 

$ yum install subversion
$ cd /var/www
$ mkdir django-src
$ cd django-src
$ svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/
$ cd trunk
$ python setup.py install

Installing and Starting MySQL Server

Here are commands needed to install and start MySQL: 

$ yum install mysql-server
$ /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start

Installing Python MySQL Support

This is the trickiest part. Python talks to MySQL using software called MySQLdb. The version available in Centos via Yum is 1.2.1-1 and isn't compatible with the most recent Django codebase. Because of this you must download and compile MySQLdb.

Before compiling MySQLdb, enter the command below to make sure you have the necessary tools: 

$ yum install python-devel mysql-devel gcc

Next, download the source tarball from SourceForge then follow these steps: 

$ mv <name of MySQLdb tarball> ~
$ cd ~
$ tar zxvf <filename of MySQLdb tarball>
$ cd <name of resulting directory>
$ python setup.py build
$ python setup.py install

When these steps are completed you should be good to go.

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    Nice little write up, I had a need to use Postgres on the backend so if anyone is interested I have wrote up my experiences with Django on CentOS and postgres (I also tried with RedHat).

    http://blog.timc3.com/2010/03/26/django-on-redhat-or-centos/

    I also go a bit more indepth into keeping the application running.

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    Mon, 2010-04-05 09:01

    Nice little write up, I had a need to use Postgres on the backend so if anyone is interested I have wrote up my experiences with Django on CentOS and postgres (I also tried with RedHat).

    http://blog.timc3.com/2010/03/26/django-on-redhat-or-centos/

    I also go a bit more indepth into keeping the application running.

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    I also use CentOS for my production work. Although I prefer to install the latest Python (2.5.x) and build all the necessary libraries from source. Personally I prefer using mod_wsgi over mod_python and the “so-called stable release” of Django. I have had a couple of bad experiences with using the SVN version in development and production. One time I was coding against an SVN checkout, 640-801 when I deployed on production I checked out a more recent version which broke some of my code. Of course I could have avoided that by frequently checking out the SVN trunk during development. But that’s really against the tagline “perfectionists with deadlines”. When I’m on a deadline, I can’t simply code around every issue that crops up because of some changes in the SVN release. MB2-631 It’s really a matter of personal preference, and I do prefer coding against a “stable” API. Sure I might miss a few important features, but it’s nothing totally groundbreaking. The only thing I really miss on the 0.96 release are the newforms updates, especially the working FileField. 70-271 With regards to lighttpd and memcached, have you tried using the RPMForge repository? The memcached and lighttpd packages are pretty much up to date.