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+"""
+WSGI configuration for the datatracker.
+
+The following apache datatracker configuration has been used together with a
+datatracker checkout of trunk@ under /srv/www/ietfdb/ to run this on a development
+server using mod_wsgi under apache.  For a production server, additional access
+restrictions are needed for the secretariat tools.
+
+----
+# This directive must be set globally, not inside <Virtualhost/>:
+WSGIPythonEggs /var/www/.python-eggs/
+
+<VirtualHost *:80> 
+    ServerName tracker.tools.ietf.org
+
+    DocumentRoot "/srv/www/ietfdb/static/"
+
+    AliasMatch	"^/((robots.txt|favicon.ico|images|css|js|media)(.*))$" /srv/www/ietfdb/static/$1
+    AliasMatch	"^/secretariat/(img|css|js|error)(/|$)"			/srv/www/ietfdb/static/secretariat/$1
+    AliasMatch	"^/secr/(img|css|js|error)(/|$)"			/srv/www/ietfdb/static/secr/$1
+
+    WSGIScriptAlias / /srv/www/ietfdb/ietf/wsgi.py
+
+    <Location "/accounts/login">
+	AuthType Digest
+	AuthName "IETF"
+	AuthUserFile /var/local/loginmgr/digest
+	AuthGroupFile /var/local/loginmgr/groups
+	AuthDigestDomain http://tools.ietf.org/
+	Require valid-user
+    </Location>
+
+</VirtualHost>
+----
+
+"""
+
+
+import os
+import sys
+import syslog
+
+path = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
+if not path in sys.path:
+    sys.path.insert(0, path)
+
+os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "ietf.settings")
+
+import django.core.handlers.wsgi
+application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()
+