Configuring apache to execute python scripts using mod_python handler

[joe jacob]

On Aug 13, 9:44 pm, 7stud <bbxx789_0... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Aug 13, 5:16 am, joe jacob <joejaco... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I configured apache to execute python scripts using mod_python
> > handler. I followed below mentioned steps to configure apache.
>
> > 1. In http.conf I added
>
> >   <Directory "D:/softwares/Apache2.2/htdocs">
> >   AddHandler mod_python .py
> >   PythonHandler mptest
> >   PythonDebug On
> >   </Directory>
>
> > 2. Then I added the line "LoadModule python_module modules/
> > mod_python.so" to http.conf.
>
> > Then I tried execute the python script mentioned below from browser.
>
> > from mod_python import apache
> > def handler(req):
> > req.content_type = 'text/plain'
> > req.write("Hello World!")
> > return apache.OK
>
> > Then I am getting the following error
>
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> >   File "D:\softwares\Python25\Lib\site-packages\mod_python
> > \importer.py", line 1537, in HandlerDispatch
> >     default=default_handler, arg=req, silent=hlist.silent)
>
> >   File "D:\softwares\Python25\Lib\site-packages\mod_python
> > \importer.py", line 1202, in _process_target
> >     module = import_module(module_name, path=path)
>
> >   File "D:\softwares\Python25\Lib\site-packages\mod_python
> > \importer.py", line 304, in import_module
> >     return __import__(module_name, {}, {}, ['*'])
>
> > ImportError: No module named mptest
>
> > I am using Apache 2.2.4, python 2.5 and mod_python-3.3.1.win32-py2.5-
> > Apache2.2.
>
> > I am able to execute python scripts by configuring apache to execute
> > the cgi scripts. But I want to execute it using mod_python as it is
> > faster compared to cgi mode. Someone please help me on this issue.
>
> 1) In the mod_python tutorial it says:
>
> -------
> 2.4 Testing
>
> ...
> ...
>
> 2. Add the following Apache directives, which can appear in either the
> main server configuration file, or .htaccess. If you are going to be
> using the .htaccess file, you will not need the <Directory> tag below
> (the directory then becomes the one in which the .htaccess file is
> located), ***and you will need to make sure the AllowOverride
> directive applicable to this directory has at least FileInfo
> specified. (The default is None, which will not work.)****
>
> <Directory /some/directory/htdocs/test>
>         AddHandler mod_python .py
>         PythonHandler mptest
>         PythonDebug On
> </Directory>
> --------
>
> Note the last sentence in the directions above.  I explain what is
> needed for that part at the link in (2) below.  Also note the
> directory listed in the opening <Directory> tag:
>
> /some/directory/htdocs/test
>
> That specifies a sub directory of htdocs.  That's because the htdocs
> directory has its own <Directory> tag in httpd.conf, which specifies
> the things you can to with it.  If you look around in httpd.conf, you
> will see the <Directory> tag that applies to htdocs.  Mine looks like
> this:
>
> <Directory "/Library/Apache2/htdocs">
> ...
> ...
> <Directory>
>
> The mod_python Testing tutorial wants you to create your own sub
> directory in htdocs, so that you can specify your own rules for that
> directory.  You're probably getting errors because you have two
> <Directory> tags in your httpd.conf file for the htdocs directory, and
> the second tag is overwriting the first one.
>
> 2) You can see the latter part of this thread for what I did to get
> mptest.py to work:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/...
>
> 3) I put any <Directory> tags I added to httpd.conf below the first
> <Directory> tag in http.conf, which is this one:
>
> <Directory "/Library/Apache2/htdocs">
>
> so that the ones lower down in the file will override the previous
> tags if there is a conflict.

Thank you very much I got it working.