On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Marc Gouw marc.gouw@embl.de wrote:
On 12/05/2017 02:45 PM, Kai Grunau wrote:
On 05.12.2017 14:24, Larry Martell wrote:
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Kai Grunau kgrunau@geomar.de wrote:
On 05.12.2017 14:05, Larry Martell wrote:
I am running CentOS 7 and I have python version:
Python 2.7.5 (default, Sep 15 2016, 22:37:39)
I need a newer version of 2.7 to pick up a bug fix. How can I do that (without breaking anything in CentOS)?
you could use the anaconda software, it is independent of the OS regards
I am not familiar with that. This is for a django app, using nginx, uWSGI, and mysql - will it integrate easily with those components?
Anaconda is a python installation independent of the OS. You can install it without root rights. Only your environment has to change to use the new python version
I think is easy to work with those components
I've happily been using python virtual environments (similar to anaconda) alongside with Apache, WSGI & django for a long time. The setup using NGINX should be almost the same (with some small differences in setting up NGINX, of course).
I would suggest "virtualenv" instead of anaconda: The principle is the same, but it offers just a bit more flexibility and customization. Virtualenv creates a local (non-system) installation of python, and you can create different collections of packages stored as different environments. In this way you can have multiple versions of python + different collections of packages all living happily side by side on the same machine.
Regarding the setup with uWSGI + NGINX, the Django documentation "How to use Django with Apache and mod_wsgi" is excellent: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/
There is also a similar setup for NGINX on readthedocs (which I assume will also work): http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/Django_and_nginx.html
For the rest: Google is your friend, you'll find lots of information on each of these topics.
This is a very mature app that we have deployed in many sites. The older sites run CentOS 6 and use apache and modwsgi. The newer sites run CentOS 7 and use nginx and uWSGI. So we am very familiar with their respective setups. But I have never used anything other then the out of the box python that came with the OS. So I am not sure how to get that nor if it will break anything. I am going to investigate Pete Biggs' suggestion to use Software Collections.