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

I test this with Bitnami DjangoStack http://bitnami.org/stack/djangostack and Windows XP installed on D:\BitNami DjangoStack and C:\Documents and Settings\tsurahman\BitNami DjangoStack projects\myproject as project directory (default install)

as in http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ReloadingSourceCode#Restarting_Apache_Processes, I added

MaxRequestsPerChild 1

in file D:\BitNami DjangoStack\apps\django\conf\django.conf see comment by Graham Dumpleton

then I created a file monitor.py in my project directory with content as in http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ReloadingSourceCode#Monitoring_For_Code_Changes and replace the _restart method with http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ReloadingSourceCode#Restarting_Windows_Apache, here is the part of the script

....

_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 Apache restart.' % prefix
    import ctypes
    ctypes.windll.libhttpd.ap_signal_parent(1)

def _modified(path):
    try:

....

and in file D:\BitNami DjangoStack\apps\django\scripts\django.wsgi,

....

import django.core.handlers.wsgi

import monitor
monitor.start(interval=1.0)
monitor.track(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'site.cf'))

application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

and then restart the Apache server