Apache Django Mod_Wsgi - auto reload

Question

I am trying to auto reload my django app which uses apache + mod_wsgi on my local windows machine.

I\'d like to know where do I add this code that\'s referenced in

Answer 1

You replace the restart function in the following block of code you find on the page:

Monitoring For Code Changes

The use of signals to restart a daemon process could also be employed in a mechanism which automatically detects changes to any Python modules or dependent files. This could be achieved by creating a thread at startup which periodically looks to see if file timestamps have changed and trigger a restart if they have.

Example code for such an automatic restart mechanism which is compatible with how mod_wsgi works is shown below.

import os
import sys
import time
import signal
import threading
import atexit
import Queue

_interval = 1.0
_times = {}
_files = []

_running = False
_queue = Queue.Queue()
_lock = threading.Lock()

def _restart(path):
    _queue.put(True)
    prefix = 'monitor (pid=%d):' % os.getpid()
    print >> sys.stderr, '%s Change detected to \'%s\'.' % (prefix, path)
    print >> sys.stderr, '%s Triggering process restart.' % prefix
    os.kill(os.getpid(), signal.SIGINT)