As stated before, by changing the PYTHONPATH, you it is NOT possible to change the python interpreter when using mod_python. Certainly you can load your own libraries, but the python itself remains the same.
Erik On 26.09.2008, at 22:07, James Matthews wrote: > I run my own installation of python out of my home dir. It's not > hard... All you need to do is to compile your own version of python > (or use your hosts mine was 2.3 so i got 2.5.1) and change your > PATH. Everything should work from there. > > James > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Erik Allik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think virtualenv will help you set up your project running > with Apache. But it's a good practice nevertheless. > > If your hosting provider supports custom FastCGI handlers/processes, > you could look into setting up Django with FastCGI. It's quite easy. > Also if you don't have a way to set up FastCGI (or mod_wsgi or > mod_python but I doubt your hosting provider lets you do that if > they're not a Python hosting provider) but your hosting has a cgi-bin > directory, you can use that to get up and running. It uses plain CGI > which would be slow if your whole Django project code was to be loaded > on each request, but there's a nifty little tool called cgi-fcgi which > routes CGI requests so a persistent FastCGI process which it can spawn > itself as needed. Just as with "true" FastCGI, this will enable you to > set up a completely customized environment for your project. > > If you have SSH access to the hosting machine which you hopefully do, > you should be able to compile anything you might need for the > environment such as database drivers or PIL and any other extensions > that require compilation. > > Regards, > Erik Allik > > On 26.09.2008, at 1:39, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > > > > > On Sep 26, 8:26 am, "Xian Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I want to run my Django app on a shared web server. > >> > >> As so many people share this server, I install python and > >> Django(1.0) under > >> my home directory. > >> > >> How can I configure the Apache with mod_python to make the django > >> under my > >> directory running? > >> > >> The server administrator refused to install Django in the /usr/bin > >> directory > > > > With mod_python you cannot make it use a different Python > installation > > than the one it was compiled with. The best you can manage is to use > > virtualenv to build a Python virtual environment in your home > > directory where you install all the Python modules/packages you want > > and then refer to that. > > > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv > > > > Only problem I see is that documentation for virtualenv seems to > have > > changed lately and no longer mentions the easy approach for using it > > with mod_python. It has some new mechanism mentioned which I can't > see > > at the moment how it works. > > > > Graham > > > > > > > > > > -- > http://www.goldwatches.com/ > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
