I just went through getting set up for testing my Django apps under mod_python as well as the test server. For the sake any other users trying to sort through this on Mac OS X, I thought I'd post what finally worked for me (YMMV). I assume you have a Django app working under the test server, and you want to do what you think will be the simple (haha) process of testing it under Apache locally.
Step 1: DevTools We're going to be compiling from source. This means you must have a recent copy of OS X DevTools installed. If you don't, go to http://developer.apple.com/tools/ and download the newest fully- released version (2.4 as of right now). Fortunately, I already had Xcode all set up. Step 2: Apache 2.0 If you want to test Django under mod_python, you're going to need to upgrade to Apache 2.0 instead of the Apache 1.3 you currently have, as mentioned here: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/install/#install-apache-and-mod-python. After looking at a few options, I concluded right now compiling from source was the best option, none of the packaged updates seem to be up- to-date right now with the latest security patches. Luckily, Apache is a *very* clean build. Download a 2.X version (as of this writing, it's 2.2.6) from an apache.org mirror. Then, look at the excellent description of a Mac OS X setup for Apache here: http://switch.richard5.net/isp-in-a-box-v2/installing-apache-on-mac-os-x/ Note that if you're using csh or tcsh instead of BASH, the first command to set up your CFLAGS should be: setenv CFLAGS "-arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/ MacOSX10.4u.sdk" instead of the bash syntax he's showing. Step 3: mod_python This was the most time-consuming part for me. It starts out easy, just download mod_python 3.x source from http://www.modpython.org/ (right now the released version is 3.3.1). Unpack as usual. The first step is to be sure to tell the configure program where your Apache 2 installation is; if you followed the suggestions above it's in /Library/Apache2. So with just that, your configure command will be: ./configure --with-apxs=/Library/Apache2/bin/apxs If you're using the Mac OS 10.4 default Python installation (2.3.5) which is installed as a Framework in /Library/Frameworks, you can continue to step 4 from there. However, I had upgraded to Python 2.4.3 and to remain version-locked with some other machines I really wanted to keep using it. This caused two complications. The first was to tell configure where my Python was, so my configure command was: ./configure --with-apxs=/Library/Apache2/bin/apxs --with-python=/ usr/local/bin/python That gets you through the configure, but it turns out to not quite work. If you build, install, and run the mod_python from there, when you launch Apache you'll get an error in the error_log to this effect, and mod_python is useless: [Mon Sep 24 13:21:56 2007] [error] python_init: Python version mismatch, expected '2.4.3', found '2.3.5'. Fortunately, Graham Dumpleton was nice enough to help me out, and pointed out that after running configure but before running "make dso" you need to edit the generated Makefile in src/Makefile. He has a note about this on his page at http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/InstallationOnMacOSX For me, since I had Python 2.4.3 installed in /Library/Frameworks, the LDFLAGS line became this: LDFLAGS= -Wl,-F/Library/Frameworks -u _PyMac_Error /Library/ Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/Python -arch ppc -arch i386 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -g Step 4: Go Back to Work on your App! Whew! At that point, I finished compiling and installing mod_python, then got to configuring my httpd.conf to reference mod_python, and then finally got back to actually making my Django app work ;-) Leo P.S. I should also point out that Graham advised not using mod_python at all, and using mod_wsgi, which is supposed to work with the stock Apache 1.3 and python 2.3.5. My ultimate deployment server uses Apache 2 so I stuck with the above, but for the sake of others I'll pass along the reference I got: http://www.modwsgi.org http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/IntegrationWithDjango http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/InstallationOnMacOSX --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
