Hi Lucas, On Sep 23, 8:29 pm, Lukasz Szybalski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:08 PM, davidjagoe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have just used modwsgideploy to generate sample apache > > configuration. The sample apache config suggests that its a bad idea > > to install my TG2 application into site-packages: > > > Could anyone tell me why that is a bad idea? > > Because if you install your project, modwsgi will say: > > Import myapp > > If you installed the project aka you put it in site-packages it will > try to import the file from site-packages folder. > Since apache needs its user be the owner of the myapp, then that means > your site package needs to be also owned by apache user. I think on > linux the site-package folder is owned by root.
Ah, ok. Yes, site-packages is owned by root but that doesn't seem to be a problem as long as I move any data directories (e.g. database and cache directory) to a different location (in my case /var) that is writable by Apache user. All of the python code in site-packages is readable by Apache. So my tests so far are ok. > > Another issue is that you might have 2 versions. One installed in > site-packages and another one that you think its running from. Indeed. I have dealt with this problem by creating a symbolic link from (e.g.) /usr/local/turbogears/myapp --> site-packages/ MyApp-0.1.egg/ . The upgrade script (which will do easy_install -U) will also have to update this symlink (can probably use pkg_resources or one of those utilities to determine which is the latest version and update the symlink). > > Does that answer your question. Yes, thanks a lot. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing something specific in modwsgi that made site-packages a very bad idea. Cheers, David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" 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/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
