Xapian discuss - May 2007 - Xapian 1.0 / Apache / Python problem

Hi,
Since upgrading to Xapian 1.0 I'm no longer able to get the python  
bindings to work running under apache with mod_python.

Works fine from the python command line interpreter/a python script,  
but not under apache.

There's no exception and nothing in the server error logs. I figured  
it might be a permissions issue but chmod -R 777 on the index  
directory didn't help. Tried on two different machines so far. Yes,  
the index was generated using 1.0.

Below is a basic mod_python handler that fails for me. It prints  
Begin but not OK.

Where do I begin to figure out what's wrong here?

Thanks,
Jason


from mod_python import apache
import xapian

def handler(req):
     req.content_type = "text/html"
     req.write('Begin')

     d = xapian.Database('my/index/path')

     req.write(' OK')
     return apache.OK

What's the sys.path for your apache mod_python configuration?  Make
sure it's pointing to where the python xapian libraries exist.

--Philip

On 5/24/07, Jason Stitt <jason@wistechnology.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> Since upgrading to Xapian 1.0 I'm no longer able to get the python
> bindings to work running under apache with mod_python.
>
> Works fine from the python command line interpreter/a python script,
> but not under apache.
>
> There's no exception and nothing in the server error logs. I figured
> it might be a permissions issue but chmod -R 777 on the index
> directory didn't help. Tried on two different machines so far. Yes,
> the index was generated using 1.0.
>
> Below is a basic mod_python handler that fails for me. It prints
> Begin but not OK.
>
> Where do I begin to figure out what's wrong here?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
>
> from mod_python import apache
> import xapian
>
> def handler(req):
>      req.content_type = "text/html"
>      req.write('Begin')
>
>      d = xapian.Database('my/index/path')
>
>      req.write(' OK')
>      return apache.OK
>
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Jason Stitt wrote:
> There's no exception and nothing in the server error logs. I figured it
> might be a permissions issue but chmod -R 777 on the index directory 
> didn't help. Tried on two different machines so far. Yes, the index was
> generated using 1.0.
I'm guessing that an exception is getting thrown, but not finding its 
way to the logs.  I'm not very familiar with mod_python, so I don't know
why this might be happening, but you could try changing your code to 
something like the following to display what the exception being thrown is:

from mod_python import apache
import xapian

def handler(req):
     req.content_type = "text/html"
     req.write('Begin')

     try:
         d = xapian.Database('my/index/path')
     except xapian.Error, e:
         req.write(' %s: %s" % (e.get_type(), str(e)))
     except Exception, e:
         req.write(' %s', str(e))

     req.write(' OK')
     return apache.OK