Deploying MapProxy on CentOS5 x86_64 using apache2 with mod_fastcgi or mod_fcgid

This is a detailed HowTo on deploying a MapProxy instance on Enterprise Linux (CentOS 5.5) for production. I worked this out for the deployment of the CRC806-Database MapProxy instance. It will describe a setup using Apache with FastCGI (mod_fastcgi or mod_fcgid) on a blank CentOS 5.5 amd64, which is also described shortly and more generally (focused on debian/ubuntu) in the MapProxy documentation.  

# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noa...

# yum install libffi

# rpm -Uvh http://elgis.argeo.org/repos/5/elgis-release-5-5_0.noarch.rpm

# yum install proj proj-epsg geos

# rpm -Uvh http://yum.chrislea.com/centos/5/i386/chl-release-5-3.noarch.rpm   

# rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CHL

# yum install make gcc gcc-c++ python26 python26-devel zlib-devel freetype freetype-devel libjpeg-devel 

# wget http://bitbucket.org/ianb/virtualenv/raw/1.5.1/virtualenv.py

# python26 virtualenv.py --distribute /var/local/mapproxy/venv

# source /var/local/mapproxy/venv/bin/activate

# pip install pyproj

# pip install Shapely

# pip install flup

# pip install MapProxy

# paster create -t mapproxy_conf /var/local/mapproxy

# yum install httpd chkconfig

# yum -y install glibc-devel httpd-devel apr apr-devel libtool

# cd /opt
# wget http://www.fastcgi.com/dist/mod_fastcgi-current.tar.gz

# tar -xvzf mod_fastcgi-current.tar.gz

# cd mod_fastcgi-2.4.6
# cp Makefile.AP2 Makefile

# make top_dir=/usr/lib64/httpd

# make install top_dir=/usr/lib64/httpd

# mkdir /var/www/mapproxy

# nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/fastcgi.conf

<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
 FastCGIExternalServer /var/www/mapproxy/sock -socket /var/www/mapproxy/var/fcgi-socket
 Alias /proxy /var/www/mapproxy/sock
</IfModule>

<Directory "/var/www/mapproxy">
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

# nano /var/local/mapproxy/mapproxy_start.sh

#!/bin/sh
MAPPROXY_HOME=/var/www/mapproxy
export MAPPROXY_USE_PYPROJ=1

source /var/local/mapproxy/venv/bin/activate

paster serve --pid-file=$MAPPROXY_HOME/paster.pid $MAPPROXY_HOME/etc/config.ini start

# nano /var/local/mapproxy/mapproxy_stop.sh

#!/bin/sh
MAPPROXY_HOME=/var/www/mapproxy
export MAPPROXY_USE_PYPROJ=1

source /var/local/mapproxy/venv/bin/activate

paster serve --pid-file=$MAPPROXY_HOME/paster.pid $MAPPROXY_HOME/etc/config.ini stop 

# nano /etc/init.d/mapproxyd

#!/bin/bash
#
#	/etc/rc.d/init.d/mapproxyd
#
# This is a Enterprise Linux initscript for starting
# the MapProxy (http://mapproxy.org) daemon.
#
# The installtion of MapProxy for Enterprise Linux in a 
# production environment is describet at:
# URL-To-Blog

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

RUN_AS_USER=mapproxy
MAPPROXY_HOME=/var/www/mapproxy

start() {
	echo -n "Starting MapProxy: "
	if [ "x$USER" != "x$RUN_AS_USER" ]; then
          su - $RUN_AS_USER -c "$MAPPROXY_HOME/mapproxy_start.sh"
        else
          $MAPPROXY_HOME/mapproxy_start.sh
        fi
        echo "Startup MapProxy done."
}	

stop() {
	echo -n "Shutting down MapProxy: "
	if [ "x$USER" != "x$RUN_AS_USER" ]; then
          su - $RUN_AS_USER -c "$MAPPROXY_HOME/mapproxy_stop.sh"
        else
          $MAPPROXY_HOME/mapproxy_stop.sh
        fi
        echo "Stopping MapProxy done."
}

case "$1" in
    start)
	start
	;;
    stop)
	stop
	;;
    *)
	echo "Usage: mapproxyd {start|stop}"
	exit 1
	;;
esac
exit $? 

# chkconfig --levels 235 mapproxyd on

# yum -y install mod_fcgid

#!/var/local/mapproxy/venv/bin/python26

import os
from paste.deploy import loadapp

application = loadapp('config:config.ini', relative_to=os.path.dirname(__file__))

#Deploy using FastCGI
if __name__ == '__main__':
        from flup.server.fcgi import WSGIServer
        WSGIServer(application).run()

# chmod 755 mapproxy.fcgi

# chown apache /var/local/mapproxy/ -R

ScriptAlias /mapproxy /var/local/mapproxy/etc/mapproxy.fcgi/