Ubuntu 10.10: Python 2.5 for App Engine and pygtk

The documentation on how to get GAE to serve static content is here: Using Static Files.

It's rather simple, you just define a static directory in your app.yaml file.

handlers:
- url: /stylesheets
  static_dir: stylesheets

This is covered in the mod_wsgi documentation. See:

• http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/CheckingYourInstallation#Python_Shared_Library

You will need to set LD_RUN_PATH environment variable to appropriate library directory when compiling mod_wsgi to ensure it uses the correct Python shared library.

Also read:

• http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/InstallationIssues#Multiple_Python_Versions

in case at run time it still picks up wrong run time files. In that case you need to also set WSGIPythonHome.

As far as compiling from source code, the other reason is that CentOS still ships an old mod_wsgi.

You might even consider using the pip installable mod_wsgi in place of doing what you are doing now. See:

• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mod_wsgi