Editing Running a Django Application on IIS (section)

=== Easing the FastCGI configuration ===

It is somewhat painful to have to specify the `pythonpath` and `settings` parameters both in the FastCGI configuration and in the `web.config` file. To avoid entering them each time, I have created a `manage.py` script in the `scripts` subdirectory of the project root that ''auto configures'' itself. Here is the source of the file:

<syntaxhighlight lang="python">
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os,sys
from os.path import abspath, dirname

# the base path is my parent directory
base_path = dirname(dirname(abspath(__file__)))


from django.core.handlers.modpython import handler

# Add the parent directory to the path to be able to import settings
sys.path.append(base_path)
sys.path.append(dirname(base_path))

# Now we can import our settings and setup the environment
try:
    import settings # Assumed to be in the same directory.
except ImportError:
    import sys
    sys.stderr.write("Error: Can't find the file 'settings.py' in the directory containing %r. It appears you've customized things.\nYou'll have to run django-admin.py, passing it your settings module.\n(If the file settings.py does indeed exist, it's causing an ImportError somehow.)\n" % __file__)
    sys.exit(1)
from django.core.management import setup_environ
setup_environ(settings)


from django.core.management import execute_manager

if __name__ == "__main__":
    execute_manager(settings)
</syntaxhighlight>

With this script, the `Arguments` setting of the FastCGI application becomes `d:\sites\esplayer\esplayer\scripts\manage.py fcgi` and the `scriptProcessor` attribute in the web.config file becomes

<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">
scriptProcessor="D:\python\App\python.exe|d:\sites\esplayer\esplayer\script\manage.py fcgi"
</syntaxhighlight>