Running python along with PHP on Windows with Apache

Short howto:

1. Install Python on the server or your computer (adding Python.exe to the path)

2. download pre-compiled mod_wsgi.so from:
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#mod_wsgi

You should download right file for your Apache version and for your Python wersion:

for example mod_wsgi‑3.4.ap24.win32‑py3.4.zip is mod_wsgi.so for Apache 2.4 compiled as 32bit app and Python 3.4. This file works fine for me on XAMPP 1.8.0

3. Extract mod_wsgi.so into your /apache/modules/ directory (would be C:\xampp\apache\modules for XAMPP)

4. Add the following string into your /apache/conf/httpd.conf (somewhere among others LoadModule strings):

LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so

5. Say you want your Python stuff to work on URL http://localhost/my-python-stuff/:

Create /my-python-stuff/ directory inside of your localhost's public_html dir (/htdocs/localhost/www/ for XAMPP);

Create .htaccess and index.wsgi files in this directory;

.htaccess

Options +ExecCGI
AddDefaultCharset utf-8

 #add wsgi handler
AddHandler wsgi-script .wsgi

 #redirect all requests to index.wsgi
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.wsgi/$1

index.wsgi

def application(environ, start_response):
    status = '200 OK'
    output = 'Hello World!'

    response_headers = [('Content-type', 'text/plain'),
                        ('Content-Length', str(len(output)))]
    start_response(status, response_headers)

    return [output]

Now if you re-start/run your apache/XAMPP and open http://localhost/my-python-stuff/ , or any other URL deeper than /my-python-stuff/ (/my-python-stuff/test/ and so on), you will see Hello World message in your browser.