setting up wsgi like app engine - mod-wsgi

I have been using wsgi on app engine to great success and now i want to use a similar setup on a fedora core 8 machine. how do i go about doing it?
I am using yum and i have installed mod_wsgi but i don't know how to implement it. I have mod_python working already
Thanks

WSGI is a specification, not a framework. Consider learning something a little less low-level, such as Flask or Django.
mod_wsgi configuration directives for httpd
Paste Deployment, a standalone WSGI container
WSGI tutorials if you insist on learning bare WSGI

Find the <VirtualHost> section for the site you want in your Apache config and add:
WSGIScriptAlias /foo /path/to/your/app/foo.py
Now you've made a mapping between URL paths starting with /foo and the script foo.py. For mod_wsgi, you just need to have that script leave a WSGI application callable under the name application, eg:
def application(environ, start_response):
start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type', 'text/html;charset=utf-8')])
return ['<p>Hello world</p>']
and that's it. If you've already got a WSGI application object you should be able to drop it right in.

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Mod wsgi and apache configuration

I'm facing the following issue: i've a public web server running on a given URL, say, www.mysite.com.
It uses apache2.
I've developed a python web app and I want to make it publicly accessible.
Locally, I use the command
mod_wsgi-express start-server wsgi.py
to start the server and everything works.
However, I would like to link only a specific URL to my app, such as mysite/my_test, leaving apache2 serving all the other requests.
In other words, I would like to set the server URL for mod_wsgi-express to mysite/my_test port 80.
By default I get Server URL: http://localhost:8000, and I would like to change this.
I've tried the --mount-point option, but I didn't see any difference.
I know I can change the apache configuration and adding WSGIScriptAlias but I'm facing multiple issues, so I'm searching for a quickest and easiest way.
Hope this is clear.
Thanks.

Howto run mod-mono and php on same apache webserver

I've successfully implemented mod-mono and apache webserver on a Centos 8 distro.
I've also installed PHP 7.2 on the server and the configuration looks ok on eye inspection.
However, the webserver is not executing the PHP files, but serving them for download.
If i go to http://example.com - it runs the website in MONO space
If I go to http://example.com/info.php - it gives me the PHP file for downloading. It makes me think that it tries to run the php file through mono and fails, so gives it to me for download instead forwarding it to PHP for execution.
Is it possible to run both PHP and MONO code on same apache webserver?
If yes, what could be the tricks to have it working ?
Many thanks.
Actually having a separate PHP website and also MONO websites in same apache server was working. However I though things were not working since I tried to run the PHP file from within the MONO-handled virtualhost ... so no need for clarifications.

Trac on shared server

I'm facing an odd problem with Trac's authentication. I have it installed in other servers and never had problem to install it, but now I'm trying to install it on a shared linux server where:
don't have access to httpd.conf;
only available scripts are php and python (wsgi);
no dev tools at all (so no chance to use gcc to compile something);
.htaccess is okay.
Well, trac is installed and working in anonymous mode and I can not find a way to make it private. It looks like it only relies on Apache basic authentication but I can not do this without httpd.conf access.
On my other instalations I use <Location> inside httpd.conf, but I can't use this tag inside .htaccess. I know that I can simply put <Location>'s content inside a .htaccess file and put this file in any www subdirectory to protect it. But since this is a wsgi script in another directory outside www I have no place to put that .htaccess.
I'm looking for a way to solve this by:
still using apache auth with any other .htaccess configuration that I've missed;
any other way Trac could be used in privative besides relying on apache;
any other issue/project tracking similar to trac is an option too.
I'm using AccountManagerPlugin on a shared Linux server machine of mine without issues.

Including several PHP versions in Apache, switchable via AddHandler directive

A shared web host I'm using is offering several versions of PHP on the same server: 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4. They make it possible to switch between these versions by naming the file extensions .php54 and .php53 respectively, or via an .htaccess directive:
AddHandler php5.4-script .php
I have not been able to completely figure out how their Apache server is configured to support this though. Everything I found seemed to say that only one mod_php can be compiled into Apache at a time. Would this suggest that php5.4-script is some sort of custom wrapper module? Or are there obscure ways in which different PHP modules can be compiled under different handler names?
According to the resource I've found after researching on this topic, it is as you already thought a (Fast) CGI wrapper which allows you to change the PHP version used via e.g. .htaccess .
How to achieve this is explained thoroughly here: http://linuxplayer.org/2011/05/intall-multiple-version-of-php-on-one-server .
In case the site is not reachable, here I'm going to list the steps:
Install required dev packages
Compile and install
Create a fastcgi wrapper script
Build and install e.g. php-5.3 with fpm enabled
Configure php-fpm
Start fpm
Install and setup mod_fastcgi, mod_fcgid
Update the Apache config file
Restart Apache

Apache doesn't load PHP MySQL extension but IIS does

I have a really irritating problem with PHP on Windows Server 2008 R2. IIS and Apache are running on the same machine (Apache is embedded with another product and it being there is not my choice).
IIS is configured to be able to use multiple versions of PHP, and none of the PHP versions on there were installed with the Windows installer (so php.exe does not exist in the path).
Apache uses one particular version of PHP (5.2.5 Thread-safe - again I can't change this as a 3rd-party application has PHP extensions compiled against this version).
If I check phpinfo() in my Apache site it doesn't have an entry for MySQL, even though php_mysql.dll is enabled in php.ini and it exists in the \ext directory. If I (temporarily) add this version of PHP (same directory, same php.ini) to IIS and set up a test site with phpinfo() it correctly lists MySQL. I know this is not just some strange issue with phpinfo because I have a MySQL-based PHP site running in Apache and it fails with Call to undefined function mysql_connect()
It was suggested that I copy libmysql.dll from the PHP directory to C:\Windows\System32 but this made no difference. As there are multiple versions of PHP on the server I suppose it's possible that the wrong version of libmysql.dll is being loaded, but the PATH doesn't include any directories containing libmysql.dll.
IIS and Apache are looking at exactly the same PHP installation, php.ini, and ext directory, but only IIS can load the MySQL extension. Apache is on the default System account as it looks like System has access to all the DLLs.
The Apache logs say nothing about any DLLs failing to load. I'm logging PHP errors in the event log but nothing is reported about those extensions.
After Googling around the issue I found other suddenly-occurring issues in PHP on Windows server but the usual resolutions - rebuilding php.ini, restarting IIS, restarting the server - haven't helped.
Any suggestions on where to look next are much appreciated!
I know this might not ultimately answer your question but, did you try configuring Apache to execute PHP through FastCGI (mod_fcgid) and use the same binary as IIS does ?
I know you are using mod_php, but calling it via FastCGI will abstract PHP from the webserver process. If extensions are loading fine under PHP called via FastCGI, there is no reason it won't work on a different web server.
Also, I personally beleive that it is a better idea this way since PHP is only called when a *.php file is requested. This way, Apache will not load PHP in memory for every request, which will give you better performance for serving static files, for example.
Update
To do this, you need to download mod_fcgid from http://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/, load the module in your Apache configuration this way,
LoadModule fcgid_module modules/mod_fcgid.so
And then, just specify what binary you want to call when PHP pages are requested:
AddHandler fcgid-script .php
FcgidWrapper "c:/php/php-cgi.exe" .php
Then, files with a .php extension will now be executed by the PHP FastCGI wrapper. Just be sure to specify the same php-cgi.exe binary as IIS is using.
All extensions that were previously available in IIS should now be available in Apache since the PHP installation behind is the same in both environment.
Keep me updated.
1.- check php.ini path in phpinfo.
2.- add php folder to the windows path
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm
3.- add directive PHPINIDir to apache conf
http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.apache2.php
4.- uncomment mysql extension in respective php.ini
5.- reload apache
6.- check mysql extension in phpinfo
and please don't copy any files to system32
You will generally need different library dlls for the different versions of PHP you are running. It's best to keep these in their own directories.
There's a few different things that could cause a module not to load, including the PHP version whether you're running a thread-safe or not-thread-safe version and also if the binaries were compiled as VC6 or VC9 †. Usually the easiest way to debug if you're getting any module loading errors is running php.exe from the command line as it will spit out any startup errors (also ensure these are enabled in your php.ini and you're loading the correct php.ini file when you do so).
† IIRC VC6/VC9 is to do with which version of Visual Studio PHP was compiled with.
Ultimately this issue came down to a missing PATH reference. Although IIS doesn't seem to require PHP or PHP modules to exist in the path it seems that Apache (or perhaps my version of PHP?) does. I am lucky in that I only need to run one version of PHP outside IIS, as I have no idea what would happen if I had multiple Apache instances referencing different versions of PHP and multiple PHP directories in the path - presumably one would always fail.
So far it looks like adding Apache's version of PHP to the path hasn't affected the IIS versions of PHP, but I will swear loudly if it suddenly does.