Question

I am deploying a web2py application, and I will be serving it with Apache via mod_wsgi. I have the following WSGI directives in my virtual host configuration:

  WSGIDaemonProcess web2py user=www-data group=www-data \
                           display-name=%{GROUP}
  WSGIProcessGroup web2py
  WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/web2py/wsgihandler.py

This is working, but it is taking the system wide python installation. As a result, some packages are not found (since they are only present in my virtualenv). I would like to tell this particular virtual host (or the whole Apache, if there is no other way), to use the python installation in my virtual environment (/home/myuser/.virtualenvs/python2.7.2/bin).

Is it possible to configure this for Apache? Or better, just for my virtual host? I would like to cause as little effect as possible to the rest of the system (specifically, I do not want to modify the default python version used system wide)

Answer 1

In your wsgihandler.py add this at the top…

activate_this = '/path/to/virtualenv/bin/activate_this.py'
execfile(activate_this, dict(__file__=activate_this)
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/path/to/web2py_dir')