Installing mod_python for Apache under cPanel
To begin, let's grab the latest version of modpython. We will need to get the SVN version of modpython as the last previous versioned release has a problem compiling on RHEL5-based systems. Since cPanel servers do not come with Subversion installed by default, we'll need to satisfy that pre-requisite first. Due to cPanel building Perl modules from source, we will be unable to install Subversion via Yum and must do so from source.
yum -y install neon neon-devel cd /usr/src/ wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.9.tar.bz2 tar xjvf subversion-1.5.9.tar.bz2 cd subversion-1.5.9 && ./configure --with-apr=/usr/local/apache/bin/ --with-apr-util=/usr/local/apache/bin/ --with-ssl --disable-mod-activation make && make install
Now we can proceed with getting mod_python.
cd /usr/src/ svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/quetzalcoatl/mod_python/trunk mod_python cd mod_python/
Now it is time to configure and build modpython. Normally we just need to tell modpython the location of the Apache apxs binary, but if you have additional build requirements, be sure to specify them on the configure
line.
./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs make && make install
make install
will place the compiled DSO in the appropriate modules/ directory under Apache. All that is left to do is to tell Apache to load it as a DSO module. Edit /usr/local/apache/conf/includes/pre_main_global.conf
and add the following:
# Mod_python (from SVN) support LoadModule python_module modules/mod_python.so
Finally, restart Apache (/scripts/restartsrv_apache
) and then double-check the module is loading OK:
root@server1 [~]# /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -t -D DUMP_MODULES|grep python Syntax OK python_module (shared)