Need help getting MoinMoin to run under WSGI

Ron Garret rNOSPAMon at flownet.com
Sun Dec 28 00:57:15 EST 2008


I successfully installed MoinMoin as a CGI according to the instructions 
on the moinmo.in site.  But when I tried to switch over to running it 
under wsgi it failed thusly:

[Sat Dec 27 21:44:14 2008] [error] [client 66.214.189.2] Traceback (most 
recent call last):
[Sat Dec 27 21:44:14 2008] [error] [client 66.214.189.2]   File 
"/www/wikis/genesisgroup/moin.wsgi", line 49, in ?
[Sat Dec 27 21:44:14 2008] [error] [client 66.214.189.2]     from 
MoinMoin.server.server_wsgi import WsgiConfig, moinmoinApp
[Sat Dec 27 21:44:14 2008] [error] [client 66.214.189.2] ImportError: No 
module named MoinMoin.server.server_wsgi

The problem, I believe, is that I have both Python 2.4 and 2.5 installed 
(it's a Debian box) and MM is installed under 2.5 but WSGI is using 2.4.  
I tried to fix this by setting WSGIPythonHome but to no avail.  I can't 
figure out what to set it to.  The instructions say:

"the WSGIPythonHome directive should be used to specify the exact 
location of the Python installation corresponding to the version of 
Python compiled against"

I have two problems with this.  First, I didn't compile mod_wsgi, I got 
it pre-built as a Debian module.  Second, what does "the exact location 
of the Python installation" even mean?  Python2.5 is spread out in at 
least three different places: /usr/local/bin, /usr/lib/python2.5, and 
/usr/local/lib/python2.5.  I've tried setting WSGIPythonHome to all of 
those (and a few other things as well) and nothing worked.

Also, "the version of Python compiled against" seems very odd.  What 
does that mean?  Surely I don't have to recompile mod_wsgi every time I 
change to a new version of Python?

Help!  Thanks!

rg



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