Last Updated: February 25, 2016

Hello Python

You need mod-wsgi adapter to configure Python in Apache
install wsgi module like below.

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
sudo a2enmod wsgi

Creating a Virtual Host for your site

After installing mod-wsgi you need to add a Virtual host in Apache
I am calling it python-web so that I can put all my Python sites configurations in one place

vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/python-web

and add the following content inside it,

<VirtualHost *:80>
 ServerName mysite.com
 DocumentRoot /var/www/mysite

 WSGIDaemonProcess mysite threads=5
 WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/mysite/mysite.wsgi
 WSGIProcessGroup mysite

 Alias /static/ "/var/www/mysite/static/"
 <Location "/media">
 SetHandler None
 </Location>
 <LocationMatch "\.(jpg|gif|png|js|css)$">
 SetHandler None
 </LocationMatch>
 <Directory /var/www/mysite>
 WSGIProcessGroup mysite
 WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
 Order deny,allow
 Allow from all
 </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

You need to enable newly created site configuration in apache

sudo a2ensite python-web

Add your site to hosts

vim /etc/hosts

and add reference like below

127.0.0.1 mysite.com

Restart Apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Ok now lets create mysite

cd /var/www/
mkdir mysite
cd mysite

Hello world App

Inside this I am going to create wsgi configuration file mysite.wsgi

import os
import sys

path='/var/www/mysite'

if path not in sys.path:
 sys.path.append(path) 

def application(environ, start_response):
 """
 This is the first function triggered after mod_wsgi invokes your application,
 This is the entry point of your application
 @environ : this is the Environment variable containing information regarding the request 
 @start_response : this is the callback function used by mod_wsgi to send data to client. 
 """

 # response string says hello world
 response = "Hello World!!!"

 # response status 
 status = "200 OK" 

 # Other response headers 
 response_headers = [('Content-Type', 'text/plain'),
 ('Content-Length', str(len(response)))]

 # trigger callback function to initiate the response process 
 start_response(status, response_headers) 

 # return response data to client
 return [response]

Now restart apache to reload all the settings