Document how to deploy using pip installed mod_wsgi

[Vincent Lefoulon]

Hi!

The current documentation page about mod_wsgi (​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/) explains how to set it up manually. Personnally, I never managed to deploy that way. Instead, I use the Python module (​https://github.com/GrahamDumpleton/mod_wsgi#installation-into-python), with which I have no problems.

Moreover, using the Python module seems to be recommended: "The second and newest way of installing mod_wsgi is to install it as a Python package into your Python installation using the Python pip install command."

Maybe we could update the documentation.

Thanks.

PS: that's my first ticket, I hope I am doing it the right way.

[Aymeric Augustin]

Indeed, pip install mod_wsgi (a recent addition) is significantly easier than previous solutions. It also works fine with pyenv (e.g. if you want to run a not-too-old Python on Debian stable). Let's do this.

[Tim Graham]

I'm not sure how much information we need to duplicate in Django's docs, linking to ​Using mod_wsgi-express with Django might be enough?

[Aymeric Augustin]

I think our documentation should contain a minimal working example corresponding to what we consider the best practice for a trivial site and point to mod_wsgi's documentation for anything else. There's a good chance our example will match mod_wsgi's 101 for running Django.

[Vincent Lefoulon]

Maybe the documentation could also mention the Docker image, really useful for trying and deploy: ​https://hub.docker.com/r/grahamdumpleton/mod-wsgi-docker/

[Tim Graham]

I agree with Aymeric about including a minimal working example, however, I think pointing to third-party resources like the Docker image is outside the scope of our documentation -- maybe it's appropriate for mod_wsgi's docs though.

[Kshitij Raghav]

Successfully Modified the documentation and added a pull request( waiting to be merged )

[Tim Graham]

Kshitij, for future reference, you should link to your PR and check "Has patch" on this ticket so the patch appears in the review queue. I will do that now.

​PR

[za]

Hi Kshitij, I've wrapped the lines into 79 chars here: ​https://github.com/django/django/pull/14939