Snakes and cats
I have a VM running Linux on my MacBook. The main reason being that I could never get mod_python to install into Apache on Leopard. I followed all the instructions I could online. I could always get it compiled, but Apache would always puke when I tried to restart it with the module loaded.
Tonight, the breakthrough.
There are countless blog entries on building mod_python on Leopard, but why not add another one?
- Get the source (3.3.1 is the newest at the time of writing)
- When uncompressed, run
./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs
- Open src/Makefile in your favourite text editor
- Add “-arch x86_64″ to the end of line 27
- Change line 49 to read “(APXS) $(INCLUDES) -c -Wc,”-arch x86_64″ $(SRCS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS)”
- Do the make/sudo make install dance
- Root edit the file /usr/apache2/httpd.conf
- Uncomment line 116 which should load mod_python.so, however, check that the module is loaded as ‘python_module’
(Update: I think line 116 was there from my last failed attempt at installing mod_python on this machine.)
The last point was the important one for me. There was a default of ‘mod_python_module’ there. Once I changed that, it all worked. I may be talking from my proverbial, but give it a go and tell me how it goes.