modwsgi

Python WSGI adapter module for Apache.

http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/

Ubuntu installation 12.04

apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
service apache2 restart

Create file /var/www/test.wsgi

   1 def application(environ, start_response):
   2     status = '200 OK'
   3     output = 'Hello World! Mod WSGI running'
   4 
   5     response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain'),
   6                         ('Content-Length', str(len(output)))]
   7     start_response(status, response_headers)
   8 
   9     return [output]

Add to file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default inside the Virtual host the following

WSGIScriptAlias /test /var/www/test.wsgi

Slackware 14 installation

wget http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/downloads/detail?name=mod_wsgi-3.4.tar.gz&can=1&q=
cp mod_wsgi-3.4.tar.gz /tmp
cd /tmp
tar xvzf mod_wsgi-3.4.tar.gz
cd mod_wsgi-3.4
./configure
make clean
make
make install
ldconfig
ls /usr/lib/httpd/modules #should appear file mod_wsgi.so
touch /etc/httpd/mod_wsgi.conf

Edit file /etc/httpd/httpd.conf and add

Include /etc/httpd/mod_wsgi.conf
Include /etc/httpd/vhosts.conf

Edit file /etc/httpd/mod_wsgi.conf and add

LoadModule wsgi_module /usr/lib/httpd/modules/mod_wsgi.so

Restart apache with

/etc/rc.d/rc.httpd restart

Check if mod_wsgi module is loaded with

tail /var/log/httpd/error_log | grep wsgi
Should appear mod_wsgi/3.4

Create test wsgi app

Create file /var/www/htdocs/test/test.wsgi

   1 def application(environ, start_response):
   2     start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/html')])
   3     yield '<html><body><h1>Test WSGI</h1></body></html>'

Create virtual host in /etc/httpd/vhosts.conf

   1 <VirtualHost *:80>
   2     ServerName localhosttestwsgi
   3     DocumentRoot "/var/www/htdocs/test"
   4     WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/htdocs/test/test.wsgi
   5     <Directory "/var/www/htdocs/test">
   6       Require local
   7     </Directory>
   8 </VirtualHost>

Add host to /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhosttestwsgi

Restart apache

/etc/rc.d/rc.httpd restart

Open url http://localhosttestwsgi/ and see if the string Test WSGI appears.

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modwsgi

Ubuntu installation 12.04

Slackware 14 installation

Create test wsgi app