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@@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ distributions for Windows aren't always complete and are missing the files needed to compile additional Apache modules. By default, it is expected that Apache is installed in the directory ``C:/Apache24`` on Windows. +If you are on Linux, macOS or other UNIX type operating system and can't +or don't want to use the system package for Apache, you can use ``pip`` +to install mod_wsgi, but you should use use the ``mod_wsgi-standalone`` +package on PyPi instead of the ``mod_wsgi`` package. + Installation into Apache ------------------------ @@ -146,6 +151,16 @@ standard location, you can set and export the ``APXS`` environment variable to the location of the Apache ``apxs`` script for your Apache installation before performing the installation. +If you are using Linux, macOS or other UNIX type operating system, and you +don't have Apache available, you can instead install mod_wsgi using:: + + pip install mod_wsgi-standalone + +When installing ``mod_wsgi-standalone``, it will also install a version +of Apache into your Python distribution. You can only use ``mod_wsgi-express`` +when using this variant of the package. The ``mod_wsgi-standalone`` package +follows the same version numbering as the ``mod_wsgi`` package on PyPi. + If you are on Windows and your Apache distribution is not installed into the directory ``C:/Apache24``, first set the environment variable ``MOD_WSGI_APACHE_ROOTDIR`` to the directory containing the Apache |