Hello World in mod_wsgi

Question

After failing repeatedly in my quest to get my flask application to run on Apache using mod_wsgi I decided to try running the hello world example. Here is what

Answer 1

You need to use an absolute path, i.e. don't use ~. This works fine for me...

[mpenning@tsunami public_html]$ sudo cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/wsgi_test
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName wsgihost
    DocumentRoot /home/mpenning/public_html
    WSGIScriptAlias / /home/mpenning/public_html/test.wsgi
</VirtualHost>
[mpenning@tsunami public_html]$

First I set up a hostname in /etc/hosts, so I could ensure that I can mux on the hostname in the query...

[mpenning@tsunami public_html]$ grep wsgihost /etc/hosts
127.0.1.1       tsunami.foo.net  tsunami wsgihost
[mpenning@tsunami public_html]$

Restart apache, and issue a wget...

[mpenning@tsunami public_html]$ wget http://wsgihost/
--2012-08-29 05:50:26--  http://wsgihost/
Resolving wsgihost... 127.0.1.1
Connecting to wsgihost|127.0.1.1|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 12 [text/plain]
Saving to: âindex.html.3â

100%[======================================>] 12          --.-K/s   in 0s

2012-08-29 05:50:26 (1.48 MB/s) - âindex.html.3â

[mpenning@tsunami public_html]$ cat index.html
Hello World![mpenning@tsunami public_html]$ #  <------