[mod_python] make_obcallback(): could not import mod_python.apache.

If your Apache runs as nobody and the python library is not world
readable, you will get this error too.

--
  Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy
       grisha at modpython.org

On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen wrote:

> Hi. 
> 
> I'm getting this error in my mail apache error_log when I try to start
> httpd after having added mod_python 2.3 as a DSO:
> 
> make_obcallback(): could not import mod_python.apache.
> make_obcallback(): could not call init.
> [Sun Jun 11 14:33:49 2000] [error] python_init: get_obcallback returned no
>   obCallBack. Possibly no more memory.
> 
> In version 2.2, I had the same problem (I switched to 2.3 while trying to
> figure it out), with two exceptions. The last line in the error message
> wasn't there, and apache didn't fail in starting (only in running .py test
> files). 
> 
> Now, when I ran httpdapy, earlier, I had a very similar problem with
> tracebacks about how it couldn't load certain python modules (apache.py
> for instance), and apache failed to load in the same way. I solved the
> problem by setting the PYTHONPATH correctly.
> 
> Changing PYTHONPATH doesn't seem to work now, however. I have the .py
> files wich came with mod_python 2.3 in my
> /usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages directory. I have compiled a
> threadless python that expects (I assume, having given no --prefix=...
> statement to its ./configure) to find scripts there. I've linked my
> mod_python DSO with this verison of python. 
> 
> My setup is an OpenBSD 2.6 (using the apache that comes bundled), Python
> 1.5, enough memory (128Mb of which 81 are reported "free" byt top).
> 
> I'm trying to load the test.py given in the installation docs, and the
> zhello.py given in the zhandler docs. 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> -- Daniel Mikkelsen, Copyleft Software
> 
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