

Version 5 (modified by anonymous, 14 years ago) (diff)


Integrating mod_python with TurboGears .8a1

Thanks to Jamie's wonderful mpcp script, this could not have been easier. As always, this is what worked for me. YMMV. And $TG_MP = [your turbogears project directory].

Go grab the from and put it into $TG_MP. Ideally, you could just grab it from easy_install, but I had a problem getting the mpcp to be seen in mod_python's $PYTHONPATH so that was my workaround.

Put an .htaccess file in $TG_MP with the following:

SetHandler mod_python
PythonHandler mpcp
PythonDebug On
PythonOption cherrysetup $NAME_OF_YOUR_START_SCRIPT::mp_setup

Warning! The start script is usually MyAppName?, and the dash will screw up the PythonOption. Ergo, lose the dash and there shouldn't be any problems.

Now, in your (newly renamed) make the following changes:

1) move cherrypy.server.start() so it only starts if name == "main". This might be unnecessary, but I really enjoy typing, so whatever.

if __name__ == "__main__":

2) create a new no-op method, called mp_setup(). As such:

def mp_setup():

This method is supposed to have cherrypy production config stuff, but our prod.cfg file handles that, so make it a no-op. The better solution would be to remove the line in mpcp that looks for cherrysetup, but that's something I'll worry about when a push to production is near.

Note: Previously, there were some instructions on how to get working with the new thread handling in CherryPy?. Jamie seems to have updated mpcp to work with the new setup, so the instructions have been removed. I recommend getting the newest version to work with, instead of hacking up your local copy.

Good luck!