Here's a simple script to monitor a web app hosted on a Centos/Red Hat server for the "white screen of death" that you'll get if PHP runs out of memory or you get a fatal error with error display turned off.

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: