How to set up Mod_WSGI for Python on Ubuntu
- by AutomatedTester
Hi,
I am trying to setup MOD_WSGI on my Ubuntu box. I have found steps that said I needed to do the following steps I found at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=833766
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
sudo a2enmod mod-wsgi
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default and update the Directory
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddHandler wsgi-script .wsgi
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Created test.wsgi with
def application(environ, start_response):
status = '200 OK'
output = 'Hello World!'
response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain'),
('Content-Length', str(len(output)))]
start_response(status, response_headers)
return [output]
Step 2 fails because it says it can't find mod-wsgi even though the apt-get found it. If I carry on with the steps the python app just shows as plain text in a browser.
Any ideas what I have done wrong?
EDIT: Results for questions asked
automatedtester@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l libapache2-mod-wsgi
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================================-======================================-============================================================================================
ii libapache2-mod-wsgi 2.5-1 Python WSGI adapter module for Apache
automatedtester@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -s libapache2-mod-wsgi
Package: libapache2-mod-wsgi
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: python
Installed-Size: 376
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <[email protected]>
Architecture: i386
Source: mod-wsgi
Version: 2.5-1
Depends: apache2, apache2.2-common, libc6 (>= 2.4), libpython2.6 (>= 2.6), python (>= 2.5), python (<< 2.7)
Suggests: apache2-mpm-worker | apache2-mpm-event
Conffiles:
/etc/apache2/mods-available/wsgi.load 06d2b4d2c95b28720f324bd650b7cbd6
/etc/apache2/mods-available/wsgi.conf 408487581dfe024e8475d2fbf993a15c
Description: Python WSGI adapter module for Apache
The mod_wsgi adapter is an Apache module that provides a WSGI (Web Server
Gateway Interface, a standard interface between web server software and
web applications written in Python) compliant interface for hosting Python
based web applications within Apache. The adapter provides significantly
better performance than using existing WSGI adapters for mod_python or CGI.
Original-Maintainer: Debian Python Modules Team <[email protected]>
Homepage: http://www.modwsgi.org/
automatedtester@ubuntu:~$ sudo a2enmod libapache2-mod-wsgi
ERROR: Module libapache2-mod-wsgi does not exist!
automatedtester@ubuntu:~$ sudo a2enmod mod-wsgi
ERROR: Module mod-wsgi does not exist!
FURTHER EDIT FOR RMYates
automatedtester@ubuntu:~$ apache2ctl -t -D DUMP_MODULES
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
Loaded Modules:
core_module (static)
log_config_module (static)
logio_module (static)
mpm_worker_module (static)
http_module (static)
so_module (static)
alias_module (shared)
auth_basic_module (shared)
authn_file_module (shared)
authz_default_module (shared)
authz_groupfile_module (shared)
authz_host_module (shared)
authz_user_module (shared)
autoindex_module (shared)
cgid_module (shared)
deflate_module (shared)
dir_module (shared)
env_module (shared)
mime_module (shared)
negotiation_module (shared)
python_module (shared)
setenvif_module (shared)
status_module (shared)
Syntax OK
automatedtester@ubuntu:~$
