On Mar 24, 5:29 pm, Peter Rowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > He's running a site on vBulletin, so his PHP needs to stay, is there > > any issues I should be careful of not upset the PHP, while still > > getting Django and mod_python correctly installed on the server? > > The one thing I am aware of is that under certain circumstances there > can be a problem involving md5 libraries loaded by mod_php and > mod_python. I am fuzzy on the specific details, but you may want to > check the following threads: > > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/17c5...http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2007-April/023508.htmlhttp://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2007-April/023512.html
This was all resolved. The problem was that Debian broke their Python distribution. See section 'Python MD5 Hash Module Conflict' of: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ApplicationIssues This is documentation for mod_python but it can be affected by the same problem. Also, see section 'SSL Shared Library Conflicts' of the same document for a related issues around md5 module caused by SSL library conflicts. Where as there is no documentation for all these sorts of issues an how they affect mod_python, they are documented for mod_wsgi. So, even if you persist in using mod_python, you may want to read the documentation for mod_wsgi which covers problems that can arise. > Also, be aware that Apache can get kind of large if you start > including lots of large interpreters. This reduces the number of > server processes you can have before you start to thrash. You'll have > to run benchmarks to see if this is a problem for you. This is generally a configuration issue only. Configure things properly and use appropriate amounts of memory where you need to and there isn't generally a problem. Where problems do arise it is generally because people simply don't understand how Apache works, or that they are trying to use Apache for conflicting purposes. For example, using prefork MPM because PHP is not thread safe in conjunction with Python web applications in embedded mode in a memory constrained VPS is a bad idea. You either ditch PHP and use worker MPM, or you go to mod_wsgi and use daemon mode for the Python web application. Graham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
