mod_wsgi

[Josh Kayse]

On 03/09/2010 04:34 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On 08/03/10 21:00, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 01:13:01PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>>      
>>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Josh Kayse<josh.kayse at gtri.gatech.edu>   wrote:
>>>        
>>>> I have recently acquired mod_wsgi commit permissions and am going through
>>>> some of the open bugs for it on bugzilla.  According to [1], and from my
>>>> testing, mod_wsgi and mod_python conflict resulting in apache segfaulting.
>>>>    The policy currently states that no packages in EPEL may conflict with a
>>>> package from Red Hat Base.  Technically, mod_wsgi and mod_python conflict
>>>> with each other, but mod_python is optional.
>>>>          
>>> Oi this is where lawyers are born.. because it looks like we are going
>>> to have enough corner cases that the policy is going to be 10 miles
>>> long to cover them all.
>>>
>>> EPEL packages can Conflict with RHEL-AP packages, but they can't willy
>>> nilly replace them. I would rather have an explicit conflict with
>>> mod_wsgi and mod_python in packages than have broken systems. Would a
>>> Conflicts cause any other issues between two repositories?
>>>
>>>        
>> Question: For mod_wsgi/mod_python Can we do something like this (note:
>> I don't know what the real apache syntax would be or if it's quite
>> possible):
>>
>> <IfNotModule mod_python.c>
>> LoadModule mod_wsgi.so
>> </IfNotModule>
>>      
> The syntax would be:
>
> <IfModule !mod_python.c>
>       LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so
> </IfModule>
>
>    
>> Note that this can still cause breakage if apache parses mod_python's
>> LoadModule after mod_wsgi's though.
>>      
> True, but in the out-of-the-box configuration, mod_python would be
> loaded first from /etc/httpd/conf.d/python.conf and then mod_wsgi from
> /etc/httpd/conf.d/wsgi.conf based on alphabetical order.
>
> Paul.
>
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Would there be any opposition to me going ahead and deploying a new 
version of mod_wsgi (3.1) with an updated wsgi.conf with this configuration?

BJ, would this be an acceptable resolution to your bug?

-josh

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