On Nov 25, 3:58 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Tim Valenta > <tonightslasts...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > > > Yeah, production servers aren't really very friendly to changes. > > Languages like PHP are specifically built to circumvent such woes. > > You would have to actually bounce apache in order to get the changes > > to take. > > > This is why the development server is so nice, because when you alter > > certain files that it watches, it actually restarts automatically for > > you. There's not really going to be a solution for this problem, > > since this is inherent to production-class web servers, where PHP and > > general CGI is the exception. > > > Hope that's not a big problem! > > > I still liked to run a production server version of my project, so I > > made a local SVN repository which I would commit changes to. I > > checked out a copy of the repository to where my production server > > wanted to see it, and then put up a clumsy cron job would > > automatically update the production machine's repository each day, and > > bounce Apache for me. > > > That's about as close as it'll get, I think :P > > You don't give details on what your production environment is so I don't > know if you can get closer there, but with mod_wsgi you can get closer. > > With mod_wsgi in daemon mode just touching the wsgi script file will result > in a reload on the next request. You can even set things up so that it > reloads automatically on source code changes. Graham Dumpleton sets outs > all the details in a blog entry here: > > http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2008/12/using-modwsgi-when-developing-django...
Thanks Karen. Is annoying sometimes when you see people don't bother reading past the single mod_wsgi page on Django site even though I put disclaimers at front to try and encourage people to do so without making it too blatant that what I wanted to say was 'STOP BEING LAZY AND GO READ THE REAL MOD_WSGI DOCUMENTATION'. ;-) 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-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.
