If you're interested in enabling Python support, please contact webhosting@doit.wisc.edu and provide the URL locations you'd like us to enable mod_wsgi. We encourage you to read the documentation for each tool before getting started:

• mod_wsgi An Apache module which can host any Python web application which supports the Python WSGI specification
• pip is the package installer for Python
• virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments.

Managing your Python virtual environment: 

• SSH into your Plesk account with an SSH client or the Plesk control panel SSH Terminal
• By default we'll create your virtualenv environment under your account at $HOME/python-env
• Shared hosting manage a mapping e.g. WSGIScriptAlias /app /var/www/vhosts/wwwtest.example.wisc.edu/wsgi/app.wsgi
• The app.wsgi refrenced above is managed by the customer and contains a mapping to the virtualenv
  

  
  import sys, os, json
   
  VIRTUALENV_PATH='/var/www/vhosts/wwwtest.example.wisc.edu/python-env'
  activate_this=os.path.expanduser(VIRTUALENV_PATH+'/bin/activate_this.py')
  execfile(activate_this, dict(__file__=activate_this))
   
  def application(environ, start_response):
      status = '200 OK'
      output = b'Hello, World!'
   
      response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain'),
                          ('Content-Length', str(len(output)))]
      start_response(status, response_headers)
   
      return [output]
  

• Before installing dependencies you should activate your vitual env: $ source python-env/bin/activate
• Install dependencies using Pip: pip install lib1 lib2 lib3
• We recommend managing a requirements.txt file with your application under source control for specifying these dependencies. e.g.
  • pip freeze > requirements.txt
  • pip install -r requirements.txt