Re: Isolated virtualenv and mod_wsgi - how do I do this on Apache

On donderdag 28 juni 2018 17:46:42 CEST Bruce Whealton wrote:

> In all cases, a virtualenv is recommended for any Python
> deployment. In both cases, I have Apache as the web server with mod_wsgi.
> Obviously, I need the server, Apache, to activate the
> Django environment. I can ssh to my VPS but what good is that. I don't
> need my username to be activating the Python isolated environment. As soon
> as I close the ssh session the activated environment
> is no longer activated. My best guess is that the Apache user must
> activate the virtual environment and keep it activated as an isolated
> virtual environment.

Virtualenv "activation" is not magic. It simply adjusts PATH so that the
virtualenv's bin directory is first. This means that whenever "python" or "pip"
is typed into the shell it will not execute `/usr/bin/python` but
`your-virtualenv/bin/python`. Handing apache a sanitized PATH with the
virtualenv bin dir as first directory, will effectively do the same as
"activation".

(To be complete: activate also alters your shell prompt, this has no effect in
one-off application launches).

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Melvyn Sopacua

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