On Nov 23, 8:18 pm, Daniel Roseman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 22, 9:42 pm, Todd Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > I teach a course in which I have students developing unrelated Django > > projects on servers of their own choice. As we near the end of the > > semester, I would like to set up a single server where I can host all > > of these student projects together. I will obviously create a new > > user, as well as a new mysql account and database, on this server for > > each project, and ask the student teams to upload their project files > > into the home directories of these accounts. But what else will I > > have to do to make this work? > > > I suppose I'll have to install the union of all the python libraries > > used by the individual projects, but each project will have its own > > settings and "local" URL structure, and I'm not sure how all of this > > should be coordinated, or what changes I'll have to ask the teams to > > make to their own projects to allow this coordination. (The server is > > Apache/mod_wsgi.) > > > Any recommendations? > > You might want to take inspiration from the way Webfaction, one of the > main Django hosters, do it. They have a central Apache for each > server, but they then also have separate Apache instances for each > Django user. The main Apache proxies to the individual user instances. > Then the users can configure and restart their own Apaches as > necessary, without disturbing everyone else on the server. > Additionally, the central instance takes care of serving static > assets.
They actually use nginx as front end these days and not Apache. Graham > As regards libraries, I would encourage you to get your students to > use virtualenv. They can then create a requirements.txt file, which > encapsulates all the external libraries they need, and you can install > everything for each user with a single command. > -- > DR. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
