Restarting a Django application running on Apache + mod_python
django, mod-python, python
Solution
If possible, you should switch to mod_wsgi. This is now the recommended way to serve Django anyway, and is much more efficient in terms of memory and server resources.
In mod_wsgi, each site has a `.wsgi` file associated with it. To restart a site, just `touch` the relevant file, and only that code will be reloaded.
Problem
I'm running a Django app on Apache + mod_python. When I make some changes to the code, sometimes they have effect immediately, other times they don't, until I restart Apache. However I don't really want to do that since it's a production server running other stuff too. Is there some other way to force that? Just to make it clear, since I see some people get it wrong, I'm talking about a production environment. For development I'm using Django's development server, of course.