vincent delft wrote:

>First sorry for question that sounds stupid...
>
>I'm on gentoo with Apache 2.0.53, Quixote 2.0, scgi
>1.2 and mod_scgi 1.2alpha1
>
>I've adapted apache conf like:
>        
>                 SetHandler scgi-handler
>                 SCGIServer 127.0.0.1:3000
>                 SCGIHandler On
>                 Options -Multiviews
>        
>(I think this is correctly taken into account because
>if I replace the ":" by a blank I receive an error
>message when I restart apache)
>
>

It's a colon with Apache 2 and a space with Apache 1.3.  I found that
out by trial and error a week ago.

>I've tried with "/qx" and with "/", but with "/" I
>receive the standard index.html of apache.
>
>

You tried what with "/".  Going to it in the browser?  That would be
outside the  scope.  If you mean "", I would guess
there's an undesired interaction happening with another part of the
Apache config file.  Maybe you have an overzealous RewriteRule or Alias
somewhere.  (Any RewriteRule should have option "[P]" to let other
modules like SCGIHandler or Alias to operate on it; otherwise they will
be bypassed.)

>I'm running python server/scgi_server.py
>
>
>But, I receive the following error:
>"
>[2005-04-24 22:05:22] exception caught
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File
>"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/quixote/publish.py",
>line 274, in process_request
>    output = self.try_publish(request)
>  File
>"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/quixote/publish.py",
>line 249, in try_publish
>    assert path[:1] == '/'
>AssertionError
>
>

I usually get that when the 'script_name' option in the SCGI server is
different than the  directive.  They both have to be the same
URL.  You can set it as the script_name= argument to scgi_server.run(),
or as the '--script-name=' command-line option to scgi_server.main().

>As a correlate question:
>"where to define the root path for a python object ?"
>Where to say to Quixote that /qx must point to
>quixote.demo.create_publisher ?
>
>

Look in quixote.server.scgi_server.main().

    default_factory = 'quixote.demo.create_publisher'
    parser.add_option(
        '--factory', dest="factory",
        default=default_factory,
        help="Path to factory function to create the site Publisher. "
             "(default=%s)" % default_factory)

Try this:

python server/scgi_server.py \
        --factory=quixote.demo.altdemo.create_publisher

> PS: simple_server.py or medusa_server.py run perfectly.

The simple server automatically receives the correct 'SCRIPT_NAME' environment
variable, as do the CGI server and FastCGI.  For some reason mod_scgi cannot set
'SCRIPT_NAME' correctly so you have to help it.  This is due to some peculiarity
with Apache and mod_scgi that I don't understand.