Setting up Dash with Apache+mod_wsgi+Flask in subdirectory. Pathnames or 404

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Hi,

I’m stuck. I am trying to setup a dash app using Apache 2.4, Flask, and mod_wsgi. I was able to get it to work fine in the root directory, but could not get it to work in a subdirectory. It works when I set this in apache’s configuration:

WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/hello/hello.wsgi/

but if instead I do

WSGIScriptAlias /hello /var/www/hello/hello.wsgi/

then I get the “Error loading layout” message. I checked other posts in this forum, and it seemed a problem of setting url_base_pathname, so I changed it to url_base_pathname=‘/hello/’ and then I got a 404 error. It beats me.

In other words: Apache is serving the app as expected (at my.domain.com/hello) if I do not modify url_base_pathname, but in this case dash looks for _dash-dependencies and _dash-layout in the wrong place (I verified that this is the case in Apache’s logs). If I do modify url_base_pathname, then I get the 404 error. How is this happening? Does someone know?

For reference:
Ubuntu bionic 18.04 LTS

Apache configuration:

WSGIDaemonProcess hello user=ubuntu group=ubuntu python-home=/home/ubuntu/hello/env python-path=/home/ubuntu/hello
WSGIProcessGroup hello
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/hello/hello.wsgi/
<Directory /var/www/hello>
  <Files hello.wsgi>
    Require all granted
  </Files>
</Directory>

hello.py

from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)
import dash
import dash_html_components as html
dash_app = dash.Dash(__name__,
                     server=app)
dash_app.layout = html.Div([
    html.H2('Hello World'),
])

hello.wsgi

from hello import app as application

requirements.txt

dash==0.28.2
dash-core-components==0.33.0
dash-html-components==0.13.2
dash-renderer==0.14.1
Flask==1.0.2
Flask-Compress==1.4.0
plotly==3.3.0