[BangPypers] Can two django projects be made to communicate to each other

[Siddharta G]

Your apache config can be something like this

<Location "/path1/">
    SetHandler python-program
    PythonHandler django_project_1_frontend
    PythonInterpreter django_project_1
    PythonOption django.root /path1
    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE apps.settings
    PythonDebug On
    PythonPath "['C:/Projects/toolsforagile_common/Scripts'] + sys.path"
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
      SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI  \
        \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
    SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI  \
        \.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|gz2|sit|rar)$ no-gzip dont-vary
</Location>

<Location "/path2/">
    SetHandler python-program
    PythonHandler django_project_2_frontend
    PythonInterpreter django_project_2
    PythonOption django.root /path2
    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE apps.settings
    PythonDebug On
    PythonPath "['C:/Projects/toolsforagile_common/Scripts'] + sys.path"
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
      SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI  \
        \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
    SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI  \
        \.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|gz2|sit|rar)$ no-gzip dont-vary
</Location>

This will redirect /path1 requests to django_project_1_frontend.py and
/path2 to django_project_2_frontend.py

The PythonInterpreter lines ensure that Apache will create two separate
python instances for each project.

The django_project_x_frontend.py you will need to hook up to the django
project, like this

import site
site.addsitedir("... <add a python paths here>")
site.addsitedir("... <add a python paths here>")

from django.core.handlers.modpython import handler


The way we have configured the layout is that each project is running in its
own virtual environment (using virtualenv). So the site.addsitedir lines
will add the virtualenv paths to before calling the django mod_python
handler.

This way both projects can have their own libraries and site-packages and
won't interfere with each other.

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Siddharta