Summary

We have now reached the end of discussing the move to production for a Django application. In this chapter, we:

• Developed a configuration to support running the marketr project under Apache with mod_wsgi.

• Encountered a number of problems getting the project running under Apache. For each, we saw how to diagnose and fix the issue.

• Considered what additional testing could be done in the new environment, given its ability to run multiple threads concurrently.

• Developed a test for the code that records posted survey responses, and observed that the code did not operate correctly under heavy load in the production environment.

• Fixed the problem found in the results recording code, and discussed other techniques that may be needed to fix more complex multithreading problems.

• Discussed the possibility of using Apache and mod_wsgi during development. This configuration can be made nearly as convenient for development as the Django development server, and use of the production setup during development...