Pyblosxom:

Will more or less asked me to join the pyblosxom development team. Well it was more or like "Hey, what's your sourceforge username I'll add you as developer". My first task is to take a look at the setuptools related config and update it.

Site:

As for the site news. Well the link to scenemusic is no longer there but you can now see, what I was listening to recently. Kudos to last.fm to make this possible. The way I did it was pretty simple in the end, a more detailed description will follow.

Ok, that's it for now, I hope you enjoyed the show and see you around.

Requirements:

• WSGI

  This comes bundled with the latest python releases, if yours is older the easiest solution is to use easy_install. Just download and install it if you haven't done yet and then call

easy_install wsgiref

• mod_python support

  Get mp_wsgi_handler.py

Setup:

Put mp_wsgi_handler.py, wsgi_app.py and your config.py in the same directory. Follow the directions in the wsgi_app.py file and put the <Location> entries in your httpd.conf file. Here it is once more. Do not forget to change PythonPath so all the required files are found.

<Location /weblog>
      PythonDebug Off
      SetHandler python-program
      # set PythonPath to the folders containing the files.
      PythonPath "['/path/to/mp_wsgi_handler', '/path/to/wsgi_app']+sys.path"
      PythonHandler mp_wsgi_handler::wsgi_handler
      # This should be the same as the Location above
      PythonOption ApplicationPath /weblog
      PythonOption application wsgi_app::application
</Location>

That's it you can now access your blog on your server via /weblog. But what if you do not want to use http://<servername>/weblog everytime?

I wanted to do exactly that. My first try was to change

<Location /weblog>

to

<Location />

This more or less worked, but since mod_python now took all requests I was not able to serve static files. I reverted the change and added some .htaccess entries instead.

.htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
RewriteRule ^(?!weblog)(.*)$ /weblog/$1 [QSA,L]

So what are these entries doing?

If the request is not an existing file or directory

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [OR]

OR it is the base url

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$

rewrite it to /weblog but only if it isn't already /weblog

RewriteRule ^(?!weblog)(.*)$ /weblog/$1 [QSA,L]

Difficult yes, working yes, solveable in a better way maybe but I do not know how. :)

If you have any questions or comments do not hesitate to ask me.