Question How do I get python script running under Apache to use python 3.6?

[captainhook]

Hi all,

I have the following script for example:

#!/usr/bin/python3.6
import platform


print('Content-Type: text/plain')
print('')
print('Hello, world!')
print(platform.python_version())

The output there shows '2.7.5'. How can I get scripts running in Plesk to use Python3.6?

edit: ok it looks like it uses the version of python mod_python is built with. There was some work to get python 3 support for mod_python (mod_python 3.5.0 (with support for Python 3!) available for pre-release testing. · Issue #9 · grisha/mod_python), but I'm not sure that's complete or working yet.
I may just need to spin up a separate VM to get this running.

 

[Ales]

The mod_python is really not the preferred way to run python these days. I suggest using Phusion Passenger.

You could refer to How to set up Django Hosting on the latest Plesk Onyx blog post to give you an idea, and also to How to allow installing and install Django applications? Plesk Support article.

We're doing it differently, but still using passenger, and I can heartily recommend it.

 

[captainhook]

Thank you, Ales. I will play around with Phusion Passenger to learn for future.
For this, I'm leaning towards Docker-ising instead given it uses Flask.

 

[Ales]

If it helps, we're using Nginx and Passenger to run Python applications using Django, Web2py and Flask frameworks. Before that, we were using mod_wsgi and Apache.

But we use separate VPS'es with standalone installations, without Plesk. Those apps are too big to be on a shared hosting, so no point in having Plesk there.