mod_wsgi_express introduction ¶
Intro 1 ¶
What mod_wsgi-express is ultimately intended for is a simple way of getting people up and running who don’t have overly strange requirements or a need to be running multiple Python web sites at the same time, although there are ways of doing the latter if need be, even with different Python versions.
Can explain this another time if people interested.
So what mod_wsgi-express does for you is generate all the Apache configuration for you, based on minimal command line options.
The Apache configuration generated and how mod_wsgi is setup is based on my knowledge of what is the best way for doing things.
That way you don’t have to fumble around making guesses as to what to change and I give you a really good starting point which is going to be much better than any default Linux distribution Apache configuration when it comes to running Python web sites
So in the simplest case if you had a simple WSGI script file all you would have to do is run:
mod_wsgi-express start-server hello.wsgi
This would by default run on port 8000.
The mod_wsgi-express package therefore covers quite a lot of range.
It can be used for development, to quickly run WSGI applications on the command line to production grade applications started on system startup.
It is therefore much more versatile than any other WSGI server in that respect with its easy options for a range of builtin functionality.
Intro 2 ¶
The idea with mod_wsgi-express is that through my experience of Apache and what makes a good configuration for Python web hosting, I can generate the configuration automatically for you. This approach will probably work for a good majority of people who are running a Python web site. It will not work for everyone though, especially where an Apache instances is shared for other purposes, and in those cases you would still have to fall back to configuring an existing Apache installation yourself.
This is not to say that everything is in place to make it as easy as possible to use mod_wsgi-express.
One thing that still needs to be done is the automatic generation of system start scripts which could then be quickly integrated into a Linux system to get things running. Due to my lack of knowledge of different Linux systems this is where I will need some help, but although I put a call out a while ago for help in this area, I got no responses.
That is therefore something which will come only slowly at this point as I want to focus on other areas for the time being.