mod_python

[Dagur]

ok, I have mod_python and django installed, but the documentation
doesn't explain how I get these two to work together. Could someone
please tell me?

[jocknerd]

You don't have to worry about them working together. Django takes care
of that for you. You just need to get mod_python running with Apache.

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/modpython/

Jacob

[Dagur]

why didn't I see that :-)

Anyway, I've tried everything but when i try to view my page in the
browser I get this:

EnvironmentError: Could not import DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE
'myproject.settings.main' (is it on sys.path?): No module named
myproject.settings.main

I edited ~/.bashrc both for root and my user (and my directory is in
sys.path) and restarted apache but nothing changes. I also tried
various settings in httpd.conf with no luck. I'm using fedora 4.

[Matthew Marshall]

Try adding this to your apache config:
PythonPath sys.path+["/dir/where/django/is/"]

That did it for me.

MWM

[Dagur Pall Ammendrup]

I did that but no luck, here's what i have:

<Location "/django">
SetHandler python-program
PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE myproject.settings.main
PythonPath "[r'/home/dagur/workspace'] + sys.path"
PythonDebug On
</Location>

I'm using virtual hosts but only trying to use django for one of them.
Could that cause any problems?

[Louis Zirkel]

On 7/25/05, Dagur Pall Ammendrup <dag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I did that but no luck, here's what i have:
>
> <Location "/django">
> SetHandler python-program
> PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
> SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE myproject.settings.main
> PythonPath "[r'/home/dagur/workspace'] + sys.path"
> PythonDebug On
> </Location>
>
> I'm using virtual hosts but only trying to use django for one of them.
> Could that cause any problems?

I'm using virtual hosts on my installation, and I'm using django on a
couple and just straight html files and CGI and I've had no trouble so
far. I don't know if it matters or not, but I do NOT have the r
prefix on my path to my home directory. You might try removing that
to see if it's causing issues for some reason.

zzzirk

[Andy Gimblett]

The 'r' really shouldn't make any difference, because mod_python just
eval()'s the string.

Dagur, are you using symlinks in /home/dagur/workspace/? mod_python
doesn't seem to want to follow symlinks, unfortunately...

It seems that if /home/dagur/workspace/myproject is a symlink to
somewhere else where myproject really lives, you get exactly the error
you've described. At least, I'm seeing the same thing in that
situation. Symlinks seem to work fine with "django-admin.py
runserver" but not apache/mod_python.

I've got "Option FollowSymlinks" set in apache.conf and I've checked
that that works for ordinary filesystem stuff - so it really looks to
me like the problem is with mod_python.

Does anyone know a way around this?

Thanks,

-Andy

--
Andy Gimblett
Computer Science Department
University of Wales Swansea
http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csandy/

[Andy Gimblett]

One other thought, Dagur: have you checked the permissions on the
myproject directory tree? Once you put things behind Apache, those
files need to be readable by whatever user's running Apache.
Sledgehammer: chmod -R a+rx /home/dagur/workspace/myproject

Cheers!

[Dagur]

I'm not using symlinks and changing the permissions had no effect
unfortunately.

Maybe I should use WSGI? Has that been documented?

[ToddG]

Have you asked the folks over here?:

http://modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/

Sounds more like a mod_python issue than Django...