Working on a RHEL 5 server. Trying to make a small CherryPy app that takes in arguments from the url (ex. internet.com/cherrypy/data/22/45 would return 22 and 45) and then use that to query a SQL Server with those arguments incorporated. Then returns that in JSON format. Stuck at a fairly big roadblock.
RHEL 5 ships with Python 2.4, 2.4 doesn't have native JSON handling, so I installed Python26 from EPEL alongside 2.4. I can run 2.6 with the python26 command, as well as 2.4 with the plain python command. I left 2.4 on as I've read yum depends on 2.4. I then removed CherryPy from 2.4, and reinstalled it for 2.6. I'm running CherryPy under Apache2 with Mod_wsgi. So I speculate that could be the root of the problem. I thought if I added a shebang (just learned of that today, great name, hah.) to my CherryPy script that would interpret it with 2.6, but it did not and I'm still getting 500 errors when I go to the root of the CherryPy application (internet.com/cherrpy/). This is my script presently:
#!/usr/bin/python2.6
import sys
sys.stdout = sys.stderr
import atexit
import threading
import cherrypy
cherrypy.config.update({'environment': 'embedded'})
class Root(object):
def index(self):
return 'Nothing to see here. Move along.'
index.exposed = True
def data(self, building, ser):
return 'You requested data for SER number: ' + ser + ' in building number: ' + building
data.exposed = True
application = cherrypy.Application(Root(), script_name=None, config=None)
I have mod_wsgi 3.2 (mod_wsgi-3.2-1.el5.x86_64.rpm) installed, which I believe I downloaded via wget and installed locally because it wasn't in the RHEL repo.
This is the line in my httpd.conf that applies to CherryPy:
WSGIScriptAlias /cherrypy /fs1/html/data/scripts/test.py
I'm not sure if the cause is having two versions of python on the system and it not knowing which to interpret the script with, or mod_wsgi is the culprit and I have to reinstall a version built for 2.6 (This and the linked question suggests that). Does anyone know for certain what I should do?
Edit: This guide on the mod_wsgi google code page indicates building with an argument for a different version of python. Should I be doing that, and pass the argument "--with-python=python26"?
Edit2: Tried building mod_wsgi from souce with:
sudo ./configure --with-python=/usr/bin/python26
But upon running make I'm greeted with this junk: http://pastebin.com/khzctxDT That's as much as I could copy, tried to write the output to a file with "sudo make > file.txt" but I get a permission denied error. I miss having root...
