how to deploy python webservice on apache
Question: I'm a green hand in Python.I have got a simple webservice with python as
following:

    
    
    enter code here
    
    import soaplib
    from soaplib.core.service import rpc, DefinitionBase
    from soaplib.core.model.primitive import String, Integer
    from soaplib.core.server import wsgi
    from soaplib.core.model.clazz import Array
    from soaplib.core.service import soap
    
    class HelloWorldService(DefinitionBase):
    
        @soap(String,Integer,_returns=Array(String))
        def say_hello(self,name,times):
            results = []
            for i in range(0,times):
                results.append('Hello, %s'%name)
            return results
    if __name__=='__main__':
    
        try:
    
            from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server
            soap_application = soaplib.core.Application([HelloWorldService], 'tns')
            wsgi_application = wsgi.Application(soap_application)
            server = make_server('10.44.138.231', 9999, wsgi_application)
            server.serve_forever()
    
        except ImportError:
    
            print "Error: example server code requires Python >= 2.5"
    

it's very fast when I access the service in localhost,but it will become very
slow from the another host in local area network.

so I want to deploy this program in apache,but it seems hard,I search this in
google for a long time and it makes me very tired now. who can give me a
help,Thank you


Answer: I would recommend using [`mod_wsgi`](http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/)
(rather than `mod_python`), as WSGI is the standard way to host Python web
applications.

You need to have a function called `application` in the global scope, in your
case:

    
    
            # ....
            return results
    
    soap_application = soaplib.core.Application([HelloWorldService], 'tns')
    application = wsgi.Application(soap_application)
    
    if __name__ == "__main__":
        # ....
    

You then enable mod_wsgi in Apache and add directives in (`WSGIScriptAlias` is
the main one). The [help
pages](http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/WhereToGetHelp) are reasonably
accessable if you've configured Apache before.

