Right. I've got a really, really annoying/difficult/time consuming problem with my development environment. I'm using django to build a web app with paypal integration. My server is hosted remotely, and it is receiving IPN (payment notifications) POST requests from Paypal. I've checked on google and irc and this is my last shot at solving this before I go mad ... :-(
The problem is that I can't debug those POST requests. Browser debugging is out of the question obviously cause I'm not at the computer, ( and it doesn't have X ). I've tried cgitb but that doesn't seem to work at all ... import cgitb; cgitb.enable(display=0,logdir='/tmp/',format='plain') import cgitb; cgitb.enable() ... neither of those commands have any effect. Although I do log other parts of the script to /tmp, so I know that it's reachable... mod_python absolutely refuses to error_log to the apache error_log. I have restarted it and it still won't flush whatever error buffer it may ( or may not ) have stored. I can re-constitute the requests in my browser using a GET request. But frankly, that's kinda messy - there are lots of paypal IPN combinations and I may have to integrate other applications with paypal. So ideally speaking I'm looking for a proper debugging environment for this kind of thing ... Basically, I either want mod_python to start error_logging properly, or I want some type of working traceback environment to be available. Help ! Server version: Apache/2.0.52 Server built: Aug 13 2006 03:29:43 CentOS4.x: (RedHat Clone) mod_python.i386 3.1.3-5.1 installed # httpd.conf <VirtualHost *:80 > ServerName mydomain.biz ServerAlias www.mydomain.biz SetHandler mod_python PythonPath "['/home/babo/django'] + sys.path" PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mydomain.settings <Location "/libs/media/"> SetHandler None Options None </Location> </VirtualHost> My python.conf: ( seems pretty normal ) # # Mod_python is a module that embeds the Python language interpreter # within the server, allowing Apache handlers to be written in Python. # LoadModule python_module modules/mod_python.so # Override type-map handler for /var/www/manual <Directory "/var/www/manual/mod/mod_python"> <Files *.html> SetHandler default-handler </Files> </Directory> # This will cause files beneath /var/www/html with the extension .spam # to be handled by the Python script /var/www/html/eggs.py # #<Directory /var/www/html> # AddHandler python-program .spam # PythonHandler eggs #</Directory> # This will cause all requests to the /python heirachy of your # webserver to be handled by the python script /path/to/myhandler.py # #<Location /python> # SetHandler python-program # PythonPath "sys.path + ['/path/to']" # PythonHandler myhandler #</Location> # This will cause all requests to the /python heirachy of your # webserver to be handled by mod_python's Publisher handler # (see http://localhost/manual/mod/mod_python/hand-pub.html) # # This will cause the output of all requests to files beneath # /var/www/html with the extension .flt to be filtered through # the Python script /var/www/html/filter.py # #<Directory /var/www/html> # PythonOutputFilter filter MYFILTER # AddOutputFilter MYFILTER .flt #</Directory> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list