Karl Johan Kleist: How to build Python, so that a shared library (libpythonX.Y.so) is produced.

For an optimal configuration of the Apache module mod_wsgi, Graham Dumpleton recommends:

“you are highly encouraged to ensure that your Python installation has been configured and compiled with the ‘–enable-shared’ option to enable the production and use of a shared library for Python.”

(http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/InstallationIssues : “Lack Of Python Shared Library”)

This recipe might save you a few minutes’ research:

wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/Python-2.7.3.tgz
tar vxzf Python-2.7.3.tgz
cd Python-2.7.3
PREFIX=$HOME/local/python-2.7.3
export LD_RUN_PATH=$PREFIX/lib
./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --enable-shared
make
make install

Another thing is that nginx might be a better choice for the “front office”. But anything with a red star in its logo simply makes us old farts suspicious…