I installed web2py with mod_wsgi on centos 5.2. I haven't used it extensively, but I did get it to work for a couple of my web2py applications.
Instead of running the install script, I manually implemented most of the steps from the setup-web2py-fedora.sh script. I have selinux disabled in this configuration. The following is a record of what I did... No guarantees... ############################################################ You will probably need the following packages. httpd.i386 mod_ssl.i386 wget.i386 httpd-devel.i386 sqlite-devel.i386 zlib-devel.i386 The python on most servers is 2.5, so I will rebuild it for 2.7 =============================================================== /usr/local/Python-2.7.2 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-threads --enable-shared --with-zlib=/usr/include make && make install Rebuild mod_wsgi to use the new python: ======================================= /usr/local/tar# wget http://modwsgi.googlecode.com/files/mod_wsgi-3.3.tar.gz cd /usr/local/mod_wsgi-3.3 ./configure --with-python=/usr/local/bin/python make && make install Install web2py somewhere. It must be owned by the apache process. ================================================================= mkdir -p /opt/web-apps chmod 755 /opt chmod 755 /opt/web-apps cd /opt/web-apps wget http://web2py.com/examples/static/web2py_src.zip unzip web2py_src.zip chown -R apache:apache web2py Setup SSL ========= mkdir -p /etc/httpd/ssl openssl genrsa 1024 > /etc/httpd/ssl/self_signed.key openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha1 -days 365 -key /etc/httpd/ssl/self_signed.yum list httpd mod_ssl mod_wsgi wget python httpd-devel sqlite-devel zlib-devel key > /etc/httpd/ssl/self_signed.cert (supply appropriate responses) openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint -text < /etc/httpd/ssl/self_signed.cert > /etc/httpd/ssl/self_signed.info Setup web2py admin password =========================== cd /opt/web-apps/web2py sudo -u apache python -c "from gluon.main import save_password; save_password(raw_input('admin password: '),443)" xxxx Configure Apache ================ /etc/httpd/conf.d ... wsgi.conf .............................................. LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so WSGISocketPrefix run/wsgi ............................................................ - mod_python interferes with mod_wsgi. - hide or remove mod_python.conf from /etc/httpd/conf.d ############################################################ ############################################################ I followed various instructions I found in the web2py group to build web2py.conf. There are simpler configurations, but I needed web2py to coexist with other pre-existing httpd applications. This configuration serves two named web2py apps: app1 and app2 --- /etc/httpd/conf.d/web2py.conf -------------------------- NameVirtualHost *:80 NameVirtualHost *:443 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName MyServer RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/app1(.*)$ /w2p/app1$1 [PT,L] RewriteRule ^/app2(.*)$ /w2p/app2$1 [PT,L] # RewriteLog "/var/log/httpd/rewrite_log" # RewriteLogLevel 9 WSGIScriptAlias /w2p /opt/web-apps/web2py/wsgihandler.py WSGIDaemonProcess web2py user=apache group=apache home=/opt/web-apps/web2py WSGIProcessGroup web2py <Directory /opt/web-apps/web2py> AllowOverride None Order Allow,Deny Deny from all <Files wsgihandler.py> Allow from all </Files> </Directory> AliasMatch ^/([^/]+)/static/(.*) /opt/web-apps/web2py/applications/$1/static/$2 <Directory /opt/web-apps/web2py/applications/*/static> Options -Indexes Order Allow,Deny Allow from all </Directory> <Location /admin> Deny from all </Location> <LocationMatch ^/([^/]+)/appadmin> Deny from all </LocationMatch> CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log common ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName MyServer SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/ssl/self_signed.cert SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/ssl/self_signed.key RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/admin(.*)$ /w2p/admin$1 [PT,L] RewriteRule ^/examples(.*)$ /w2p/examples$1 [PT,L] # RewriteLog "/var/log/httpd/rewrite_log" # RewriteLogLevel 9 WSGIScriptAlias /w2p /opt/web-apps/web2py/wsgihandler.py WSGIDaemonProcess web2py2 user=apache group=apache home=/opt/web-apps/web2py WSGIProcessGroup web2py2 <Directory /opt/web-apps/web2py> AllowOverride None Order Allow,Deny Deny from all <Files wsgihandler.py> Allow from all </Files> </Directory> AliasMatch ^/([^/]+)/static/(.*) /opt/web-apps/web2py/applications/$1/static/$2 <Directory /opt/web-apps/web2py/applications/*/static> Options -Indexes ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 hour" Order Allow,Deny Allow from all </Directory> CustomLog /var/log/httpd/access_log common ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/error_log </VirtualHost> ------------------------------------------------------------ ############################################################
