fundamental issues with configuring Apache and mod_python

I am trying to experiment with django.  And, I'm at a loss. 
My
problem is that I just don't conceptually understand how to
match up
where everything is supposed to go on the filesystem and how
to
configure Apache and mod_python to be aware of it.

I am running Apache2 on Ubuntu Edgy with mod_python 3.2.8. 
And, I
have gotten my Django pages to render in a text based web
browser
(with the builtin web server).

Here's a little information about what my file system looks
like:

/usr/local/www/myDomain.com/docroot    (where my HTML went
before
Django  --  my DocumentRoot)
/usr/local/www/myDomain.com/linkshare   (where I put my
Django project
files)
/usr/local/www/myDomain.com/linkshare/polls    (where I put
the polls
app I've created from the tutorial)
/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django    (where I
installed
Django)

So, I am confused what I should use for the paths for some
of the
directives (look for the 3 places I put
"whatGoesHere" in the snippet
from apache2.conf below):

<Location '/whatGoesHere'>
    SetHandler python-program
    PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE whatGoesHere.settings
    PythonDebug On
</Location>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/myDomain.com/docroot
    ServerName www.myDomain.com
    ServerAlias myDomain.com *. myDomain.com
    PythonPath "['whatGoesHere'] + sys.path"
</VirtualHost>

Do I need a DocumentRoot directive in my VirtualHost?

My urls.py file looks like the following.  I assume it's
right because
http://localhost:8000/pol
ls works in my text browser.  Although,
http://localhost:8000/
doesn't render.  I'm not sure how to get a
default view.
urlpatterns = patterns('',
        (r'^polls/$', 'linkshare.polls.views.index'),
        (r'^polls/(?P<poll_id>d+)/$',
'linkshare.polls.views.detail'),
        (r'^polls/(?P<poll_id>d+)/results/$',
'linkshare.polls.views.results'),
        (r'^polls/(?P<poll_id>d+)/vote/$',
'linkshare.polls.views.vote'),
    # Uncomment this for admin:
        (r'^admin/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls')),


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Hi!

On Jan 31, 6:47 pm, "backdoc" <backdoc...gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to experiment with django.  And, I'm at a
loss.  My
> problem is that I just don't conceptually understand
how to match up
> where everything is supposed to go on the filesystem
and how to
> configure Apache and mod_python to be aware of it.

Its not clear for me where the problem is (since you see
/polls).
Just for reference here is config of my site:

<VirtualHost 195.26.95.195:80>
  ServerName alex.koval.kharkov.ua
  ServerAdmin alexkoval.kharkov.ua
  CustomLog
/var/log/apache2/alex.koval.kharkov.ua-access_log combined
  DocumentRoot
/var/www/alex.koval.kharkov.ua/PersonalWebSite/htdocs
  <Location />
    SetHandler python-program
    PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
    PythonPath
"sys.path+['/var/www/alex.koval.kharkov.ua/
PersonalWebSite/','
/var/www/alex.koval.kharkov.ua/']"
    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE PersonalWebSite.settings
    SetEnv LANG en_EN
    SetEnv LC_ALL C
    PythonDebug Off
  </Location>
  <Location "/media">
    SetHandler None
  </Location>
  Alias /static
"/var/www/alex.koval.kharkov.ua/PersonalWebSite/
htdocs/"
  <Location "/static">
    SetHandler None
  </Location>
</VirtualHost>

Source code of my site can be seen here:
http://code.koval.kharkov.ua/browser/PersonalWebSite/t
runk



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