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I'm running CentOS 8.1 with Python 3.6.8, and Apache/2.4.37.

I'm new to mod_wsgi. I found this "hello world" example and got it to work:

https://www.ionos.com/community/hosting/python/use-mod-wsgi-to-run-python-as-a-web-application-on-centos-7/

The problem I'm having is that this appears to require each .py file to be added to its own .conf file to be added to conf.d, as seen in /etc/httpd/conf.d/helloworld.conf:

WSGIScriptAlias /helloworld /var/www/python/helloworld.py <Directory /var/www/python/> Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>

And to run on python (.py) scripts out of /var/www/python.

This is very inconvenient before it looks like each Python program needs to be hardcoded instead of running out of the /var/www/html directories. We have development in Python 2 where the .py files are executed in the same directory along with .html and .php files. Under CentOS 7 we just had an entry added to the httpd.conf to recognize all .py files and make sure they got executed by Python.

I see the author mentioned this was for security. Is there a way to do this still being secure, but so I don't have to gather up all the .py files on the server and make .conf files for it, as seen in this "hello world" example?

If my take on using mod_wsgi is completely wrong, please enlighten me.

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The mod_wsgi also has WSGIScriptAliasMatch that could be useful in your case, e.g.

WSGIScriptAliasMatch ^/([^/]+).py /var/www/python/$1.py

If you don't require the shorter paths, you could also use WSGIScriptAlias for the whole folder:

WSGIScriptAlias /python/ /var/www/python/

That would be equivalent to:

Alias /python/ /var/www/python/ <Location /python> SetHandler wsgi-script Options +ExecCGI </Location>

This is similar to how you'd use mod_python's Publisher Handler:

<Directory /var/www/python> AddHandler mod_python .py PythonHandler mod_python.publisher PythonDebug On </Directory>

For more examples, please refer to mod_wsgi Configuration Guidelines

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  • How would I do this so any .py file located anywhere within the directories in /var/www/html would execute the .py file just as it executes any .php file no matter where it is in /var/www/html? Commented Mar 15, 2020 at 20:10
  • How about AddHandler wsgi-script .py? I really suggest reading the documentation. Commented Mar 16, 2020 at 3:09

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