aodh/doc/source/install/mod_wsgi.rst
Fei Long Wang f2685fc531 Doc enhancement for API service deployment with mod_wsgi
Now Pecan is sharing the same debug configration with Ceilometer,
but DebugMiddleware of Pecan doesn't support multi processes.
That means user can't enable the Ceilometer debug mode if he is
using multi process mode for mod_wsgi config.

Closes-Bug: 1352088

Change-Id: I6e83fbcbee23a519fe26c3036f42cc619848a989
2014-08-05 10:24:47 +12:00

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Installing the API Behind mod_wsgi

Ceilometer comes with a few example files for configuring the API service to run behind Apache with mod_wsgi.

app.wsgi

The file ceilometer/api/app.wsgi sets up the V2 API WSGI application. The file is installed with the rest of the ceilometer application code, and should not need to be modified.

etc/apache2/ceilometer

The etc/apache2/ceilometer file contains example settings that work with a copy of ceilometer installed via devstack.

../../../etc/apache2/ceilometer

  1. Copy or symlink the file to /etc/apache2/sites-avilable.

  2. Modify the VirtualHost directive, setting a hostname or IP for the service. The default settings assume that the ceilometer API is the only service running on the local Apache instance, which conflicts with Horizon's default configuration.

  3. Modify the WSGIDaemonProcess directive to set the user and group values to a user available on your server.

  4. Modify the APACHE_RUN_USER and APACHE_RUN_GROUP values to the name of a user and group available on your server.

  5. Enable the ceilometer site.

    $ a2ensite ceilometer
    $ service apache2 reload

Limitation

As Ceilometer is using Pecan and Pecan's DebugMiddleware doesn't support multiple processes, there is no way to set debug mode in the multiprocessing case. So user will run into HTTP 500 error if the mod_wsgi's multiprocessing is enabled and the Ceilometer debug mode is enabled at the same time. There is no good way to make both of them work, since Pecan is sharing the debug mode with Ceilometer, see[1]. If you really need to enable both, a possible workaround is hacking that line and hardcode the debug configration to False.

[1] https://github.com/openstack/ceilometer/blob/master/ceilometer/api/app.py