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Okay, I'm making a lot of progress. I want to serve Askbot from mysite.com/ask/, and furthermore, I don't want mysite.com/ being handled by WSGI/Django. As far as I can tell, that means I need to have e.g. WSGIScriptAlias /ask ..., as opposed to WSGIScriptAlias / .... Specifically, when I had ASKBOT_URL ASKBOT_ROOT = 'ask/' and WSGIScriptAlias / ..., mysite.com/wiki/ was getting handled by Django.

I pretty much have it working how I want, after doing the following:

• Leave ASKBOT_URLASKBOT_ROOT as ''
• In settings.py, set ASKBOT_MEDIA_URL ASKBOT_MEDIA_ROOT = 'ask/'
• In askbot/skins/utils.py, in get_media_url, have it use ASKBOT_MEDIA_URLASKBOT_MEDIA_ROOT instead of ASKBOT_URLASKBOT_ROOT
• In the apache config, change the aliases given from e.g. /upfiles/ to /ask/upfiles/

Everything seems to work, except that logging in and logging out takes people to /, not /ask/.

The question: What's the right way to fix this? Am I going about the subdirectory thing all wrong?

Here's the relevant part of my apache config:

#replace with 127.0.0.1 with real IP address
<VirtualHost 123.345.567.789:80>
     ServerAdmin admin@mysite.com
     DocumentURL DocumentRoot /opt/webapps/
     ServerName mysite.com

     #aliases to serve static media directly
     #will probably need adjustment
     Alias /ask/m/ /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/askbot-0.6.11-py2.6.egg/askbot/skins/
     Alias /ask/upfiles/ /opt/webapps/ask/askbot/upfiles/
     Alias /ask/admin/media/ /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/


     <DirectoryMatch "/opt/webapps/ask/askbot/skins/([^/]+)/media">
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
     </DirectoryMatch>
     <Directory "/opt/webapps/ask/askbot/upfiles">
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
     </Directory>

     #must be a distinct name within your apache configuration
     WSGIDaemonProcess askbot2
     WSGIProcessGroup askbot2
     WSGIScriptAlias /ask /opt/webapps/ask/django.wsgi
     #make all admin stuff except media go through secure connection
     #<LocationMatch "/admin(?!/media)">
     #    RewriteEngine on
     #    RewriteRule /admin(.*)$ https://example.com/admin$1 [L,R=301]
     #</LocationMatch>
     CustomLog /var/log/apache2/askbot/access_log common
     ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/askbot/error_log
     LogLevel debug

</VirtualHost>