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Christian Rougeau
crougeau at dining.umd.edu
Thu Apr 27 15:02:11 EDT 2006
forwarded back to the list.... -----Original Message----- From: Jorey Bump [mailto:list at joreybump.com] Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:58 PM To: Christian Rougeau Cc: mod_python user mailing list Subject: Re: [mod_python] Newbie Question from a newbie - mod_python/Apache 1.3 accessing Python 2.4 libraries It's helpful to others to keep responses on the list. :) Christian Rougeau wrote: > Yes, it has apache 2, of course. But we don't use it for in-house > stuff, presently. Sorry, I meant does it have a 3.x version of mod_python to work with its apache 2.x? This isn't trivial, so it's possible they only provide a 2.7.x mod_python RPM, which only works with apache 1.3.x. You can uninstall the RPM and compile your own mod_python 3.x against apache 2.x, but I don't recommend that you attempt to install both versions of mod_python (unless RH provides them and has worked some magic to make it safe). > Why? A tremendous amount of development activity has (and is) going into improving mod_python. The dust hasn't settled, but there are some very nice features in the newer versions, many of them aimed at newbies. You are also likely to get better support here if you run into problems. Questions about mod_python 2.7.x have fallen dramatically in the last few months, now that older distributions that included it are being replaced and development has ceased on that version. > I have been excessively warned against using Apache 2 when I asked my > former colleagues, due to the fact that it doesn't play very nice with > the mod_perl stuff that we have set up on one server. So, I was fine > with going with apache 1.3 SSL. Apache 1.3 is a champ, and beloved by many admins. I've only recently upgraded, but I skip to apache 2.2 in most cases. You can easily use multiple versions of apache on a single server, especially if you compile your own. You might also find that mod_perl has caught up to the newer versions of apache. > However, my thought now is to have both halves of the website on one > box, with both Apache 2/CF/mod_python on one side (CF b/c that's what > the site is in currently, and what the daily developer knows, and, > hey, I know it too.) I've read that CF performs dramatically better with apache 2.0, so I didn't even consider 1.3 when I set up my CF server. > and Apache 1.3 SSL/mod_perl enabled residing on the same box, > different directory. > > Thoughts on this? Apache's so flexible, you can easily do this. You can even proxy connections to other instances, if you need to remain within the same public-facing host. You can migrate your other apps to the newer apache at a comfortable pace, so it's a reasonable plan.
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