All,

I am trying to set up mod_python and Quixote to serve my entire website.
I've got it working now, but the solution is a hack and won't work in the
general case.  I'm hoping that someone can point me to a more elegant
solution.

First off, I configured my httpd.conf normally, but instead of the
mod_python directives residing in a  or  block,
they exist directly in my  block, like so:


        ...other config settings...
        SetHandler python-program
        PythonPath "sys.path + ['/home/eric/lib']"
        PythonHandler wxbase.mod_python_session_handler
        PythonOption quixote-root-namespace wxweb
        PythonOption quixote-config-file /home/eric/public_html/quixote.conf
        PythonInterpreter wxweb
        PythonDebug On


When I had the config in a , it worked great.  However,
moving it to the root caused two problems:

1. Calls to root, for example "http://www.example.com" were continually
redirected
2. Calls to anything else caused SCRIPT_NAME to equal the first path
component, with PATH_INFO the rest.  This caused the side-effect that
expected url "http://www.example.com/example/2004/03" for example, which
should look up example, call it's _q_lookup with "2004", etc., started
instead at 2004, which wasn't found, obviously.  So, in order to get it to
work, you could insert a bogus path component of *anything*, like:
"http://www.example.com/blabla/example/2004/03" which worked like a charm.

Here is the "hack" I made to get it to work:

In publish.py, line 666 (in v1.0b1), I changed to:
script_name = request.environ['SCRIPT_NAME']
    if (not path and script_name <> "/" and fix_trailing_slash):

when requesting the root URL ("http://www.example.com", SCRIPT_NAME is set
to "/" which caused an infinite redirect.  I don't know enough about
mod_python and HTTP to know if this is a good fix for the general case or
not, but it stops the infinite redirect if you have FIX_TRAILING_SLASH to
1 (default).

To fix the PATH_INFO/SCRIPT_NAME problem, on line 510 in publish.py I
changed the "PATH_INFO" variable to "REQUEST_URI".  Now I know this will
not work in the general sense:

output = self.try_publish(request, env.get('REQUEST_URI', ''))

Is there some change to my mod_python directives that is a better solution?

Thanks for your help!!

Regards,
Eric