To use Django with Apache, it would be necessary to install *some* python interpreter into the server. I used Django on our shared hosting site using an .htaccess that called the mod_python handler in Django. However, mod_python was already installed. If they are offering to install mod_wsgi, then absolutely take them up on it. The performance difference between mod_wsgi and pretty much every other Apache arrangement cannot be understated.
-Mark On Dec 9, 8:56 pm, Todd Wilson <twil...@csufresno.edu> wrote: > A couple of weeks ago I sent the message quoted below to the list. One > reader (Daniel Roseman) replied and suggested that I might not need to > ask the hosting service to install anything, quoting documentation from > the FastCGI section, but it seemed to me (as explained in my reply on > 11/28/2010) that mod_fastcgi had to be installed, which it isn't (or at > least it's not in /etc/apache2/mods-available/). > > Anyway, I got through to the hosting provider's tech support with my > request and got this reply: > > According to Django requirements (http://packages.debian.org/lenny > /python-django) and our experience there is no need to have > mod_python or mod_wsgi installed on the server. So, you could > try to run Django web site on the server. If any problem arises we > will install the mod_wsgi module. > > I wonder if they are referring to the development server here. Please > correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood from the documentation that a > vanilla installation of Apache would not be sufficient to deploy > production Django applications, except possibly through (old-fashioned) > CGI: some form of integration (mod_wsgi, mod_python, mod_fastcgi, ...) > would be needed. Is that right? > > In any case, they are willing to install mod_wsgi. Not being very > familiar with Apache configuration, can someone tell me how much of the > WSGI configuration mentioned in the Django docs for WSGI deployment > (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/howto/deployment/modwsgi/) can be > done with an .htaccess file, and how much I will have to ask them to do > for me? > > Thanks, > > --Todd > > Todd Wilson wrote, on 11/27/2010 07:20 PM:> I'm helping some friends improve > a portal website they have created > > using PHP, but which would be ideal for Django, in the sense that a lot > > of the work they've already done, and would like to do as they improve > > the site, would be easy to do in Django. They have a hosting contract > > with Intermedia (http://www.intermedia.net/) and would very much like to > > keep it. I've gotten ssh access to their server and went poking around > > a bit, and, although python is available on the server (version 2.5.2), > > there doesn't seem to be any support for WSGI, mod_python, FastCGI, or > > the other deployment options listed in the documentation (at least I > > didn't see them in /etc/apache2/mods-available/), and it doesn't look > > like they support other frameworks (Rails, Drupal, Zope) either. > > > My question: I've always set up my own servers and don't have any > > experience with web hosting; is there a minimal sort of request that I > > could make to Intermedia that, if granted, would make it possible for me > > (and presumably others) to deploy a Django site using their service, or > > should I just try to convince my friends to find a different hosting > > service? It seems like there would be many to choose from: > > > http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts > > > Thanks, > > > --Todd -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
