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Fixed #13820 -- Started the deprecation process for mod_python. Thanks to Robert Coup for the patch.

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Russell Keith-Magee
2010-08-28 02:40:57 +00:00
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@@ -20,14 +20,14 @@ serve pages to a Web server. The Web server delegates the incoming Web requests
(via a socket) to FastCGI, which executes the code and passes the response back
to the Web server, which, in turn, passes it back to the client's Web browser.
Like mod_python, FastCGI allows code to stay in memory, allowing requests to be
served with no startup time. Unlike mod_python_ (or `mod_perl`_), a FastCGI
process doesn't run inside the Web server process, but in a separate,
Like mod_wsgi, FastCGI allows code to stay in memory, allowing requests to be
served with no startup time. While mod_wsgi can either be configured embedded
in the Apache webserver process or as a separate daemon process, a FastCGI
process never runs inside the Web server process, always in a separate,
persistent process.
.. _mod_wsgi: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/
.. _mod_perl: http://perl.apache.org/
.. _mod_python: http://www.modpython.org/
.. admonition:: Why run code in a separate process?
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ persistent process.
languages (most notably PHP, Python and Perl) inside the process space of
your Web server. Although this lowers startup time -- because code doesn't
have to be read off disk for every request -- it comes at the cost of
memory use. For mod_python, for example, every Apache process gets its own
Python interpreter, which uses up a considerable amount of RAM.
memory use.
Due to the nature of FastCGI, it's even possible to have processes that run
under a different user account than the Web server process. That's a nice
@@ -361,7 +360,7 @@ Serving admin media files
Regardless of the server and configuration you eventually decide to use, you
will also need to give some thought to how to serve the admin media files. The
advice given in the :ref:`modpython <serving-the-admin-files>` documentation
advice given in the :ref:`mod_wsgi <serving-the-admin-files>` documentation
is also applicable in the setups detailed above.
Forcing the URL prefix to a particular value