Python – How to serve static files with apache on openshift official python cartridge

Problem was a school boy mod_rewrite error - in order for the RewriteRule to be run both the RewriteCond statements above need to be satisfied, which of course they never will be. This was my fault for copying this from a negative condition test and not realising they would have to be separated. Although annoying that I need two RewriteRule statements, this works perfectly:

  RewriteCond /home/user/public_html%{REQUEST_URI} -f
  RewriteRule ^ /home/user/public_html%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
  RewriteCond /home/user/public_html%{REQUEST_URI} -d
  RewriteRule ^ /home/user/public_html%{REQUEST_URI} [L]

A solution that worked for me that allowed me to use Python 2.7 (although not very desirable), is to build the Crypto module with MingGW. Download Crypto source package and run setup.py build --compiler=mingw32.

See this question for more information: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3706293