Install OSQA on Snow Leopard

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Prerequisites

Python

We can use the built-in Python 2.6.1 in OS X 10.6.5 at /usr/bin/python, or we can use MacPorts to install the newest Python 2.6.6 at /opt/local/bin/python.

setuptools

Download from here and install it or just let MacPorts install the py-setuptools package at /opt/local/bin/.

Apache Web Server

Just use built-in setup, the 64-bit Apache 2.2.15 in OS X 10.6.5.

mod_wsgi

Which is not in the default setup of Snow Leopard. We can download the newest source version from here and compile and install it like this:

curl -o mod_wsgi.tgz http://modwsgi.googlecode.com/files/mod_wsgi-3.3.tar.gz
tar -xzf mod_wsgi-3.3.tar.gz
cd  mod_wsgi-3.3
./configure
make
sudo make install

These steps will compile mod_wsgi.so and install it into /usr/libexec/apache2.

Now edit your Apache config file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf, add this line to the bottom of the LoadModule list:

LoadModule wsgi_module libexec/apache2/mod_wsgi.so

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