Comments on Graham Dumpleton: Using mod_wsgi when developing Django sites.

Thanks, this is a life saver

2010-12-31T09:01:01.122+11:00

Thanks, this is a life saver

GamesBook, this blog post was made over a year ago...

2010-03-03T20:12:46.367+11:00

GamesBook, this blog post was made over a year ago. At that time the Django documentation still recommended mod_python.

You say that "the core Django documentation s...

2010-03-03T18:20:41.319+11:00

You say that "the core Django documentation still recommends use of prefork MPM for Apache and mod_python"

But on this page:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.0/howto/deployment/
(which AFAIK is an official Django doc) it reads:

"If you’re new to deploying Django and/or Python, we’d recommend you try mod_wsgi first. In most cases it’ll be the

rocketmonkeys: Why did you modify it how you did.?...

2009-11-12T08:13:06.485+11:00

rocketmonkeys: Why did you modify it how you did.?The separate post at http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/02/source-code-reloading-with-modwsgi-on.html and the documentation on mod_wsgi site at http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ReloadingSourceCode already explain better way of doing it for Windows.

Hey graham, thanks so much for posting the code! ...

2009-11-12T08:05:58.728+11:00

Hey graham, thanks so much for posting the code! I've modified it to use it on windows, works great.

http://www.rocketmonkeys.com/post.364

Makes things so much nicer to develop in windows when using apache instead of the 'manage.py runserver'. Thanks again.

@Josie: You are better off taking your upload issu...

2009-06-22T21:32:49.331+10:00

@Josie: You are better off taking your upload issue to django-users list on Google Groups. You will possibly need to provide a bit more detail than that, such as how you are setting up route for upload directory in urls.py etc.

Hey Graham Thank you for pointing me to this wond...

2009-06-22T20:52:12.427+10:00

Hey Graham

Thank you for pointing me to this wonderful post of yours (It works like my fingers on the keyboard! hehe)

Now I am having a problem with the trailing slashes, what to I need to do in order for http://localhost/upload to be http://localhost/upload/ since my settings.py file has APPEND_SLASH = True but when I visit http://localhost/upload I am greeted with an

See http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/02/source-code-r...

2009-02-26T10:18:00.000+11:00
See http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/02/source-code-reloading-with-modwsgi-on.html for how to adapt this to Windows.

The referenced page about Django threading issues ...

2009-02-10T14:39:00.000+11:00
The referenced page about Django threading issues is a Django user contributed page and does not represent an official statement from the core Django developers. The core Django documentation still recommends use of prefork MPM for Apache and mod_python, that is, single threaded environment. Until the core Django developers change their recommendation and make a clear statement that Django 1.0+

While on the subject of mod_wsgi and Django, it se...

2009-02-10T13:47:00.000+11:00
While on the subject of mod_wsgi and Django, it seems that the following page needs to be updated (towards the end in the paragraphs that involve threading issues):

http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/IntegrationWithDjango

The link provided on that page regarding the threading issues seems to imply that threading is confirmed to work in Django 1.0 and up; the paragraphs

Using MaxRequestsPerChild or maximum-requests, if ...

2008-12-26T14:55:00.000+11:00
Using MaxRequestsPerChild or maximum-requests, if using mod_wsgi daemon mode, set to a value of 1 will only serve to slow things down. If you are the only user and requests are infrequent, so long as your application doesn't have large startup costs can still be okay, but seems a bit wasteful.

I've never once used the Django dev server for loc...

2008-12-26T13:38:00.000+11:00
I've never once used the Django dev server for local development. Previously it was apache and mod_python, and now we all use mod_wsgi. I simply set the max child processes value to 1 so the process constantly dies. I haven't noticed any performance issues locally with this method, my local server is fast as a bat out of hell... even when some of our dev code isn't exactly the fastest :P Any real

Windows doesn't support forking of processes and s...

2008-12-20T15:11:00.000+11:00
Windows doesn't support forking of processes and so cannot support daemon mode as it is currently implemented in mod_wsgi. You will therefore not see that feature.

As for the automated restarts when code changes are detected, there is an outside chance that this could be made to work now even though embedded mode is all that is supported.

This is because on Windows there is only

any chance the functionality will be available on ...

2008-12-20T14:00:00.000+11:00
any chance the functionality will be available on Windows one day?