Question

I’m a green hand in Python.I have got a simple webservice with python as following:

enter code here

import soaplib
from soaplib.core.service import rpc, DefinitionBase
from soaplib.core.model.primitive import String, Integer
from soaplib.core.server import wsgi
from soaplib.core.model.clazz import Array
from soaplib.core.service import soap

class HelloWorldService(DefinitionBase):

    @soap(String,Integer,_returns=Array(String))
    def say_hello(self,name,times):
        results = []
        for i in range(0,times):
            results.append('Hello, %s'%name)
        return results
if __name__=='__main__':

    try:

        from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server
        soap_application = soaplib.core.Application([HelloWorldService], 'tns')
        wsgi_application = wsgi.Application(soap_application)
        server = make_server('10.44.138.231', 9999, wsgi_application)
        server.serve_forever()

    except ImportError:

        print "Error: example server code requires Python >= 2.5"

it’s very fast when I access the service in localhost,but it will become very slow from the another host in local area network.

so I want to deploy this program in apache,but it seems hard,I search this in google for a long time and it makes me very tired now. who can give me a help,Thank you

Answer 1

I would recommend using mod_wsgi (rather than mod_python), as WSGI is the standard way to host Python web applications.

You need to have a function called application in the global scope, in your case:

        # ....
        return results

soap_application = soaplib.core.Application([HelloWorldService], 'tns')
application = wsgi.Application(soap_application)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # ....

You then enable mod_wsgi in Apache and add directives in (WSGIScriptAlias is the main one). The help pages are reasonably accessable if you’ve configured Apache before.