[MODPYTHON-120] Connection handler test fails on virtual hosting system such as OpenVPS.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.2.7
• Fix Version/s: 3.3.1
• Component/s: core
• Assignee: Graham Phillip Dumpleton
• Reporter: Graham Phillip Dumpleton
• Created: 05/Feb/06 07:53
• Updated: 05/Apr/07 11:40
• Resolved: 02/Apr/06 16:54

Description

On a virtual hosting environment such as OpenVPS, "localhost" does not map to the IP address "127.0.0.1" but the actual IP of the host.

>>> import socket
>>> socket.gethostbyname("localhost")
'207.126.122.36'

This fact causes the connection handler test to fail because it sets up the virtual host listener definition as something like:

Listen 59180
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:59180>
SetHandler mod_python
PythonPath [r'/home/grahamd/mod_python-3.2.7/test/htdocs']+sys.path
PythonConnectionHandler tests::connectionhandler
</VirtualHost>

In this case it really needs to be:

Listen 59180
<VirtualHost 207.126.122.36:59180>
SetHandler mod_python
PythonPath [r'/home/grahamd/mod_python-3.2.7/test/htdocs']+sys.path
PythonConnectionHandler tests::connectionhandler
</VirtualHost>

To accomodate virtual hosting arrangements, the test might be able to be rewritten as:

def test_connectionhandler_conf(self):

try:
ip = socket.gethostbyname("localhost")
except:
ip = "127.0.0.1"

self.conport = findUnusedPort()
c = str(Listen("%d" % self.conport)) + \
str(VirtualHost("%s:%d" % (ip,self.conport),
SetHandler("mod_python"),
PythonPath("[r'%s']+sys.path" % DOCUMENT_ROOT),
PythonConnectionHandler("tests::connectionhandler")))
return c

This should always work on UNIX boxes, but whether it does on Win32 boxes would need to be confirmed.