8 November 2015

Using Python in the web. Setup Apache the way that you can run Python backend on it.

Apache

You need mod_wsgi to run Python based web applications on top of the Apache web server.
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  1. # Add the following line to "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf" or wherever your apache configuration file is.
  2. LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so
Programming Language: Apache configuration
Add to your vhosts.conf file, between "DirectoryMatch" tags:
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  1.     Options ExecCGI
  2.     AddHandler wsgi-script .wsgi
Programming Language: Text

Python

Create index.wsgi to your root directory and put this code into it.
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  1. def wsgi_app(environ, start_response):
  2.     output = "<html><body><h1>WSGI working!</h1></body></html>\n".encode('utf-8')
  3.     status = '200 OK'
  4.     headers = [('Content-type', 'text/html'),
  5.                ('Content-Length', str(len(output)))]
  6.     start_response(status, headers)
  7.     yield output
  8.  
  9.  
  10. # mod_wsgi needs the "application" variable to serve our small app
  11. application = wsgi_app
Programming Language: Python

Test

See if "http://localhost/index.wsgi" gives out "WSGI working!".