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Mod Python On Hr Concepts

Set up latest version of python in an own installation

• Taken from http://trac.turbogears.org/turbogears/wiki/TurboGearsOnDreamHost :

 
 wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.2/Python-2.4.2.tgz

 tar -zxvf Python-2.4.2.tgz
 cd Python-2.4.2

 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/lib --enable-unicode=ucs4
 make
 make install

 mkdir $HOME/bin
 mkdir $HOME/bin/python
 mkdir $HOME/bin/python/bin

 ln -s $HOME/lib/bin/python $HOME/bin/python/bin/python

 cd ~
 emacs .bash_profile

 export PATH=$HOME/bin/python/bin:$HOME/lib/bin:$PATH

 source ~/.bash_profile
 

Check installation

 
 login@server:~$ python
 Python 2.4.2 (#1, Mar 13 2006, 07:53:35)
 [GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>>

Install ModPython

• for apache in version 1.3 use ModPython in version 2.7.11:

 
 wget http://apache.imsam.info/httpd/modpython/mod_python-2.7.11.tgz

 tar -zxvf mod_python-2.7.11.tgz
 cd mod_python-2.7.11

 ./configure or, if this does not do the trick, be more specific:
 ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs --with-python=$HOME/bin/python/bin/
 ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/bin/apxs --with-python=$HOME/Python-2.4.2
 make dso   # this will create the .so-file
 make install_py_lib   #('make install' will not work without being 'root')
 

• This will create mod_python.so in mod_python-2.7.11/src
  
• Check if ModPython is installed with the correct python [1]:

 >>> import mod_python.psp

• or, maybe quicker:

 python -c "import mod_python.psp"

• Load that module in your httpd.conf:

 LoadModule python_module $HOME/mod_python-2.7.11/src/mod_python.so

 rc httpd reload [2]

Django

• taken from http://manuals.textdrive.com/read/chapter/84
  • no need to put django-admin.py into site-packages.
  • set up for multiple projects

 
 mkdir local
 cd local

 wget http://www.djangoproject.com/download/0.91/tarball/
 tar xzvf Django-0.91.tar.gz
 mv Django-0.91 django_src
 rm Django-0.91.tar.gz

 mkdir django-projects

 edit .bash_profile...
 export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/local/django_src/django/bin
 export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$HOME/local/:$HOME/local/django_src/:$HOME/doms/YOUR_PATH_HERE/django-projects
 

• test the installation. the following input should not give errors:

 python -c "import django.core"

• test whether django-admin.py is on your path:
  • start typing django and hit TAB. Does it auto-complete?