[mod_python] Can't seem to get mod_python working, please help me

Greetings!

I think Graham is right; you could have either a path problem or a
user/permission problem.

First, make sure that both the directory for the python interpreter and the
directory where mod_python was installed are available in the PATH
environment variable.  Open a new command prompt window in whatever
directory your mptest.py resides and execute "python mptest.py"  If your
PATH is set correctly, you will get the "No module named _apache" error.  If
you get "No module named mod_python" then the interpreter path is fine, but
you need to put mod_python.py where the interpreter can find it.

Next, temporarily set the permissions on the Python root directory to grant
full control to everyone.  Restart your Apache server and see if that fixes
the problem.  If it does, set the permissions of the Python root directory
to grant full control to whatever user the Apache process is running as.

If none of this helps, give us a holler back and let us know what happened.

Best Regards,
Lee E. Brown
(administrator at leebrown.org)

-----Original Message-----
From: mod_python-bounces at modpython.org
[mailto:mod_python-bounces at modpython.org] On Behalf Of Dan Eloff
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 5:32 PM
To: mod_python at modpython.org
Subject: [mod_python] Can't seem to get mod_python working, please help me

I installed mod_python on my XP pro system with apache 2.0.55 and python
2.4.2 I get an internal server error when trying to load any .py

I added this to the bottom of my conifg file, and added the load module
statement as well.

<Directory />
        AddHandler mod_python .py
        PythonHandler mptest
        PythonDebug On
</Directory>

The module seems to be loading correctly. mod_python also seems to be
installed correctly, when I try and import mod_python from an interpreter it
says it can't find _apache.

The relevant lines from the log file are pasted below. The url I try to
access is localhost/test.py, which doesn't exist, but I don't think that
matters to mod_python, it will try to handle it anyway, but never seems to
get that far.

What are some things I should check or some things I can try to get it
working?

Thanks,
-Dan

[Sun Jan 15 13:53:32 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Win32) mod_python/3.2.2b
Python/2.4.2 PHP/5.1.1 configured -- resuming normal operations [Sun Jan 15
13:53:32 2006] [notice] Server built: Oct  9 2005 19:16:56 [Sun Jan 15
13:53:32 2006] [notice] Parent: Created child process 2716 [Sun Jan 15
13:53:32 2006] [notice] mod_python: Creating 8 session mutexes based on 0
max processes and 10 max threads.
[Sun Jan 15 13:53:32 2006] [notice] Child 2716: Child process is running
[Sun Jan 15 13:53:32 2006] [notice] Child 2716: Acquired the start mutex.
[Sun Jan 15 13:53:32 2006] [notice] Child 2716: Starting 10 worker threads.
[Sun Jan 15 13:57:02 2006] [error] make_obcallback: could not import
mod_python.apache.\n [Sun Jan 15 13:57:02 2006] [error] python_handler: no
interpreter callback found.
[Sun Jan 15 13:57:02 2006] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] python_handler:
Can't get/create interpreter.

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