#18518: wsgi.py does not overwrite DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE in apache prefork
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Reporter: schaefer@… | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: reopened
Component: Uncategorized | Version: 1.4
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Design
Has patch: 0 | decision needed
Needs tests: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
| UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by carljm):
This boils down to an issue of how much Django wants to privilege the
peculiar needs of `mod_wsgi`s unusual Python execution environment over
other WSGI app servers that execute Python in a more usual way (one
environment, one process). If you're using one of the latter (gunicorn,
for instance), it's pretty natural to, for instance, have separate
"development" and "production" settings modules and choose one by setting
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE explicitly, for instance
`DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=myproject.settings.production gunicorn ...`, and
it would be quite surprising (even anti-social) for a Django script to
presume to unilaterally override `DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE` to a fixed
value, disregarding what is set in the environment.
That said, I recognize that there are a lot of `mod_wsgi` users, and the
current behavior interacts quite badly with its default settings. I am
still opposed to changing the default Django wsgi script to accommodate
thate, but I'd certainly be in favor of a strong documentation fix, even
including a comment directly above that line in the file.
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