On Nov 3, 5:55 pm, Stephen Moore <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Graham Dumpleton
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Cant you just have different settings files and set
> > DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULES different for each installation?
>
> The problem with that becomes let's say I have the two options
> production and internet, then that means that I have to have 4
> different settings.py for each combination.
>
> I did find an interesting idea
> herehttp://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2006-June/021316.html
> just then.
>
> basically you modify PythonPath depending on what features you want.
>
> For example, say I have a file hierarchy like so
>
> options/
> debug/
> production/
> __init__.py
> apacheSettings.py
> #In here set PRODUCTION=True
>
> dev/
> __init__.py
> apacheSettings.py
> #In here set PRODUCTION=False
>
> internet/
> on/
> __init__.py
> apacheSettings.py
> #In here set INTERNET=True
>
> off/
> __init__.py
> apacheSettings.py
> #In here set INTERNET=False
>
> then in settings.py
>
> PRODUCTION = True
> try:
> import apacheSettings
> PRODUCTION = apacheSettings.PRODUCTION
> except ImportError:
> pass
>
> INTERNET = True
> try:
> import internetSettings
> INTERNET = internetSettings.INTERNET
> except ImportError:
> pass
>
> and finally, in apache configuration
>
> PythonPath " \
> [ \
> '/home/iambob/web/options/debug/production', \
> '/home/iambob/web/options/internet/on', \
> '/home/iambob/web', '/home/iambob/web/common',
> '/home/iambob/web/home'\
> ] + sys.path"
>
> or
>
> PythonPath " \
> [ \
> '/home/iambob/web/options/debug/dev', \
> '/home/iambob/web/options/internet/off', \
> '/home/iambob/web', '/home/iambob/web/common',
> '/home/iambob/web/home'\
> ] + sys.path"
>
> which seems to work rather nicely
>
> :)
All I can suggest is get rid of mod_python. It is a fair bit simpler
in mod_wsgi to do these sorts of per setup overrides because the WSGI
script file acts as an intermediary from which overrides can be
applied.
Graham
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