Acache: wsgi and alias incompatibility - apache

Question

I am trying to setup Apache so that:
if the user goes to /temp then the file /home/temp/public_html/index.html is served
if the user goes to /temp/app then my mod-wsgi /home/temp/app/start.wsgi is executed
I currently have this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
WSGIDaemonProcess temp user=temp group=temp home=/home/temp/app
WSGIScriptAlias /temp/app /home/temp/app/start.wsgi
Alias /temp /home/temp/public_html
<Directory /home/temp/app>
WSGIProcessGroup temp
WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost *:80>
But oddly enough Alias seems to take predence over WSGIScriptAlias and /temp/app does not work...

Answer 1

You got closer in your own answer, but not quite. Use something like:
<VirtualHost *:80>
WSGIDaemonProcess temp user=temp group=temp home=/home/temp/app
Alias /temp/app /home/temp/app/start.wsgi
Alias /temp /home/temp/public_html
<Directory /home/temp/app>
WSGIProcessGroup temp
WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
Require all granted
Options ExecCGI
AddHandler wsgi-script .wsgi
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Answer 2

Not particularly pretty, but I have (at least for the time being) solved it this way:
<VirtualHost *:80>
WSGIDaemonProcess temp user=temp group=temp home=/home/temp/app
<Directory /home/temp/app>
WSGIProcessGroup temp
WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
Options ExecCGI MultiViews
MultiviewsMatch Handlers
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddHandler wsgi-script .wsgi
Require all granted
</Directory>
Alias /temp /home/temp/app
</VirtualHost>
Instead of using WSGIScriptAlias, I define it to automatically run .wsgi files. The MultiViews option matches file to file.wsgi.
Furthermore, to hide the extension from my own script, in each .wsgi I have to redefine the script filename:
from server_public import app as _application # my flask app
# get rid of the .wsgi extension
def application(environ, start_response):
if environ['SCRIPT_NAME'].endswith('.wsgi'):
environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] = environ['SCRIPT_NAME'][:-5]
return _application(environ, start_response)
I also had to move my public_html/index.html to app/index.html.
I would prefer a simpler solutions where I served index.html for /temp, and a script alias for /temp/app... But not sure that is possible...