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