Question

I’m doing some introductory work with django which seems really easy (and fun) so far but I have been doing all this from Python 2.6 which I installed in /opt/local (RedHat 5.3) because the python that came with redhat was 2.4. I set up a symlink:

/usr/bin/python2.6 -> /opt/local/bin/python

and I have been using that for all the django stuff so far; i.e.

> python2.6 manage.py runserver

However, when I try to move on to production mode, mod_python isn’t using the right version of python:

Mod_python error: "PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython"

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/apache.py", line 287, in HandlerDispatch
    log=debug)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/apache.py", line 461, in import_module
    f, p, d = imp.find_module(parts[i], path)

ImportError: No module named django

I have this in my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

<Location "/chat">
 SetHandler python-program
 PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
 SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE chat.settings
 PythonDebug On
 PythonPath "['/www/django/chat', '/opt/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/'] + sys.path"
</Location>

So my question is, how do I make mod_python look for python2.6 instead of python?

Answer 1

You would have to rebuild mod_python against your python2.6 installation. Since mod_python loads python as a library the version is fixed at compile time.