Category | linux

After a long struggle with getting Django working with Apache, I came to the conclusion the Apache that came with Cent OS does not work well with the newly compiled Python 2.4.4, It seems to fall back on the older version of python (2.3.4) which is already in the system. So i decided to compile Apache from source and it works beautifully. And apache is very clean, when you compile from scratch. I was able to compile the latest version (2.2) and recompile mod python. Removed all httpd related packages from CentOS php-5.1.6-1.2.1.centos php-mysql-5.1.6-1.2.1.centos php-pear-1.4.9-1.2.centos...

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Now for todays post. Installing mod python and apache. #wget http://apache.mirror99.com/httpd/modpython/mod_python-3.2.10.tgz #tar xvfz mod_python-3.2.10.tgz #cd mod_python-3.2.10 #ls -al #./configure I get an error at this stage saying apxs or apxs2 not found. So basically its looking for httpd-devel packages. Just did #yum install httpd-devel and I was able to build it successfully. #./configure #make #make install it put mod_python.so in /usr/lib/httpd/modules The next step would be to configure Django with Apache.

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We at ObjectGraph are moving to a dedicated hosting solution. The server is hosted in NY. It has Cent OS 4.4 (Based on RHEL 4). It comes installed with Python 2.3.4. A lot of packages (like yum) depend on this version of python in the system. So when i found out that some of the syntax like '@staticfunction' we were using to develop in django is not compatible with python 2.3.4, I was distraught. I decided i need to upgrade python. Here is a simple test program that fails in the older version of Python. class Test: def __init__(self): print "Hello World!" ...

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