This is kind of confusing, apologies in advance. I am configuring a new (temporary) internal production web server with the following specs:
OSX 10.8.4 (Mountain Lion), Apache 2.2.25, PostgreSQL 9.2, Python 2.7.5, Django 1.5.2, R 3.0.1, RPy2 2.3.7, virtualenv 1.10.4, virtualenvwrapper 4.1.1, mod_wsgi 3.4
This was set up on a new machine using Homebrew and pip. I removed original, Apple-installed versions of Apache and Postgres before doing the installs. Both Apache and mod_wsgi work. mod_wsgi is installed to run as daemon process.
Virtual hosts is configured in Apache to access django via mod_wsgi and the wsgi.py
file contains the following lines:
import os,sys,site
site.addsitedir('/Users/kaiju/.virtualenvs/nauru_dev/lib/python2.7/site-packages')
# Activate the virtual environment
# Taken from http://thecodeship.com/deployment/deploy-django-apache-virtualenv-and-mod_wsgi/
activate_env = os.path.expanduser('/Users/kaiju/.virtualenvs/nauru_dev/bin/activate_this.py')
execfile(activate_env,dict(__file__=activate_env))
All python packages (including django and RPy2) have been installed using the virtual environment's python site-packages.
R was installed using Homebrew and works fine from the command line or from python interpreter when invoked within the virtual env (most of the time, more later).
homebrew.mxcl.httpd.plist
has been added to /Library/LaunchDaemons
instead of ~/Library/LaunchAgents
so that it would automatically start when the machine is rebooted. homebrew.mxcl.postgres.plist
has been added to ~/Library/LaunchAgents
(probably should also move it to /Library/LaunchDaemons
).
So here is the problem. When everything was installed, it worked together fine. To verify everything was cool, I restarted the machine and tested the django application. Apache is running, as is django, but now I get the following error:
RuntimeError at /admin/
R_HOME not defined, and no R command in the PATH.
Request Method: GET
Request URL: http://nauru.xoma.com/admin/
Django Version: 1.5.2
Exception Type: RuntimeError
Exception Value: R_HOME not defined, and no R command in the PATH.
Exception Location: /Users/kaiju/.virtualenvs/nauru_dev/lib/python2.7/site-packages/rpy2/rinterface/__init__.py in <module>, line 48
Python Executable: /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python2.7
Python Version: 2.7.5
Python Path: ['usr/local/var/django/code/ri',
'/usr/local/var/django/code',
'/usr/local/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/setuptools-0.9.8-py2.7.egg',
'/usr/local/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pip-1.4-py2.7.egg',
'/usr/local/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python27.zip',
'/usr/local/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7',
'/usr/local/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-darwin',
'/usr/local/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac',
'/usr/local/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plat-mac/lib-scriptpackages',
'/usr/local/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk',
'/usr/local/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-old',
'/usr/local/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload',
'/usr/local/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages',
'/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages',
'/Users/kaiju/.virtualenvs/nauru_dev/lib/python2.7/site-packages',
'/Users/kaiju/.virtualenvs/nauru_dev/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PIL']
But if I open a terminal window and type
sudo apachectl stop
sudo apachectl start
When the server comes back, everything works. This does not happen if I use sudo apachectl restart
, in that case the error remains. What is going on? Too many moving parts for me.